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Works of John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 4

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Milton, John

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Paradise Lost: Book 4

(Lines 1-31) Milton wishes for a warning voice like the one that St.
John, who wrote the Book of the Apocalypse, heard in Heaven. Perhaps such a
voice could have protected Adam and Eve from the Fiend who has come to tempt
them. Satan does not rejoice at the speed with which he has traveled to the
earth nor at the evil he is planning. For the evil has already begun to recoil
upon him. His thoughts are troubled. They remind him of the Hell that is
within him, the Hell which he can no more leave than he can leave himself. His
reawakened ...

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