Belphœbe » Paradise Lost http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com literary tidbits Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:22:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Paradise Lost http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/paradise-lost-2/ http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/paradise-lost-2/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:28:12 +0000 admin http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/paradise-lost-2/ All in a moment through the gloom were seen
Ten thousand banners rise into the air
With orient colors waving; with them rose
A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms
Appeared, and serried shields in thick array
Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised
To highth of noblest temper heroes old…

John Milton, Paradise Lost

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Labor, as to debar us when we need
Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,
Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
Of looks and smiles, for smiles from reason flow,
To brute denied, and are of love the food,
Love not the lowest end of human life.

Adam, in Paradise Lost by John Milton

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