„things to their thought so unimaginable as hate in Heaven“

Book VI

„We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais’d By our own quickening power, when fatal course Had circled his full...

„Who can in reason, then, or right, assume Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power and splendour less, In freedom...

„Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s host“

„Nor knew I not To be, both will and deed, created free.“

„‚Tell him withal His danger, and from whom; what enemy, Late fall’n from Heaven, is plotting now The fall of others from like state of...

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