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Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

Book by John Milton · 5 quotes · Abyss, All Things, All Things New

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“Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”