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PARADISE LOST,

OR, THE

FALL of M A N:.

WITH

Hiftorical, Philofophical, Critical, and
Explanatory, NOTES,

From the Learned

RAYMOND DE St. MAUR:

WHEREIN

The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are
explained, the original Signification of the Names
of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what
Language derived, rendered easy and intelligible.

ALSO THE

Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referred
to, hiftorically related; difficult Paffages cleared of
their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the
Standard of the English Idiom.

In TWELVE BOOKS.

LONDON:

Printed for D. STEEL, Number 1, UNION-Row,
the lower End of the MINORIES, LITTLE

TOWER-HILL.

10-3180

823 M6405221

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O Poem has had greater or jufter Praife from the most eminent Judges of Literature, than PARADISE LOST, as well for the Sublimity of the Subject and Sentiments, as the profound and extenfive Learning it is enriched with. It comprehends almost every Thing within the Extent of human Knowledge; but being wrote in the higheft Stile of heroick Poetry, and the Thoughts, many of them express'd by Figures of Grammar and Rhetoric, being full of Digreffions and Sentences tranfpofed, as well as difficult Terms in the Mathematicks, Hiftory, Aftronomy, Aftrology, Geography, Architecture, Navigation, Anatomy, Alchymy, Divinity, and all other human Arts and Sciences, it hath fo happened, that many Readers have been unable to see the Beauties of the Poem, for want of being able to come at the proper Explication of thofe things, which have been out of their Reach; and this must happen to a great many; for how few are there who have had

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