 OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret...  Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is ... - Page 3by John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 284 pages
...the tradition with which Milton begins his epic, in which mountains are places of sacred revelation: "Sing, Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top / Of...inspire / That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed ... or if Sion hill Delight the more, ... I thence / Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, / That with... | |
 | Michael Paschalis - Comparative literature - 2007 - 232 pages
...pleased me. first" (178-82). I suspect a clever echo here of Milton's invocation in Paradise Lost of the Muse "that on the secret top / Of Oreb, or of Sinai,...That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed." In Book 2 we are introduced to Wordsworth's childhood in the Lake District, where he "first" learned to... | |
 | Scott Shay - Education - 2007 - 234 pages
...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb,...Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos. Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid... | |
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