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English Minor Poems; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica is unavailable, but you can change that!

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[66] Of mankind, in the happie Garden plac’t, [67] Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, [68] Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love [69] In blissful solitude; he then survey’d [70] Hell and the Gulf between, and Satan there [71] Coasting the wall of Heav’n on this side Night [72] In the dun Air sublime, and ready now [73] To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feet [74] On the bare outside of this World, that seem’d [75] Firm land imbosom’d without Firmament, [76] Uncertain which, in Ocean or in
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