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WORKS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Milton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book III of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book V of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book VI of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book VIII of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book IX of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book X of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book XI of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book XII of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MILTON<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Head of Milton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n(ca. 1800\u201303)
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and ink and tempera on canvas
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 40.1 cm
\nWidth: 90.9 cm
\nHeight (framed): 49.2 cm
\nWidth (framed): 99.1 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nManchester Art Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Frontispiece to Milton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1804\u201311
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nHand-colored relief etching and white-line etching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 15.9 cm
\nWidth: 11 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Plate 13 of Blake\u2019s Milton<\/em> (Copy A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1804\u201311
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nHand-colored relief etching and white-line etching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 16 cm
\nWidth: 11.1 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0I \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man\u2019s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac\u2019t:<\/em> Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather<\/em> Satan in the Serpent; who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Which action past over, the Poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell,<\/em> describ\u2019d here, not in the Centre<\/em> (for Heaven and Earth may be suppos\u2019d as yet not made, certainly not yet accurst) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call\u2019d<\/em> Chaos: Here<\/em> Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battle, thir chief Leaders nam\u2019d, according to the Idols known afterwards in<\/em> Canaan and the Countries adjoining.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 To these<\/em> Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophecy or report in Heaven;<\/em> for that Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers.\u00a0\u00a0 To find out the truth of this Prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full Council.\u00a0\u00a0 What his Associates thence attempt.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Pandemonium the Palace of<\/em> Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Council.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Calling up his Legions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1800\u201305
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nTempera and gold leaf on canvas
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 53.3 cm
\nWidth: 49.6 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nPetworth House, The Egremont Collection (National Trust)<\/a>, West Sussex
\nVictoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe call\u2019d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
\nOf Hell resounded.\u2026
\nAwake, arise, or be for ever fall\u2019n.
\nThey heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 314\u201315, 330\u201331)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Calling up his Legions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25 cm
\nWidth: 21.1 cm
\nHeight: 25 cm (mount)
\nWidth: 21.1 cm (mount)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe call\u2019d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
\nOf Hell resounded.\u2026
\nAwake, arise, or be for ever fall\u2019n.
\nThey heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 314\u201315, 330\u201331)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Calling up his Legions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nWatercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 51.8 cm
\nWidth: 39.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nVictoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe call\u2019d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
\nOf Hell resounded.\u2026
\nAwake, arise, or be for ever fall\u2019n.
\nThey heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 314\u201315, 330\u201331)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0II \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consultation begun,<\/em> Satan debates whether another Battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of Heaven: some advise it, others dissuade: A third proposal is preferr\u2019d, mention\u2019d before by<\/em> Satan, to search the truth of that Prophecy or Tradition in Heaven concerning another world, and another kind of creature equal or not much inferior to themselves, about this time to be created: Thir doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search:<\/em> Satan thir chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honor\u2019d and applauded.\u00a0\u00a0 The Council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways and to several employments, as thir inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till<\/em> Satan return.\u00a0\u00a0 He passes on his Journey to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are op\u2019n\u2019d, and discover to him the great Gulf between Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by<\/em> Chaos, the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he sought.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan, Sin and Death \u2013 Satan comes to the Gates of Hell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nInk and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.7 cm
\nWidth: 20.8 cm
\nHeight: 24.7 cm (mount)
\nWidth: 20.8 cm (mount)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d.\u2026
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201308, 719\u201330)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan, Sin and Death \u2013 Satan comes to the Gates of Hell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor, with touches of liquid gold
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.6 cm
\nWidth: 40.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d.\u2026
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201308, 719\u201330)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1782\u201385
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nGraphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23.5 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 33.7 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nYale Center for British Art<\/a>, New Haven, CT
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026thither he plies,
\nUndaunted to meet there whatever power
\nOr Spirit of the nethermost Abyss
\nMight in that noise reside, of whom to ask
\nWhich way the nearest coast of darkness lies
\nBordering on light; when straight behold the Throne
\nOf Chaos,<\/em> and his dark Pavilion spread
\nWide on the wasteful Deep; with him Enthron\u2019d
\nSat Sable-vested Night,<\/em> eldest of things,
\nThe Consort of his Reign; and by them stood
\nOrcus<\/em> and Ades,<\/em> and the dreaded name
\nOf Demogorgon;<\/em> Rumor<\/em> next and Chance,<\/em>
\nAnd Tumult<\/em> and Confusion<\/em> all imbroil\u2019d,
\nAnd Discord<\/em> with a thousand various mouths.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 954\u201367)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0III \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGod sitting on his Throne sees<\/em> Satan flying towards this world, then newly created; shows him to the Son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of<\/em> Satan in perverting mankind; clears his own Justice and Wisdom from all imputation, having created Man free and able enough to have withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did<\/em> Satan, but by him seduc\u2019t. The Son of God renders praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards Man; but God again declares, that Grace cannot be extended towards Man without the satisfaction of divine Justice; Man hath offended the majesty of God by aspiring to Godhead, and therefore with all his Progeny devoted to death must die, unless some one can be found sufficient to answer for his offense, and undergo his Punishment.\u00a0\u00a0 The Son of God freely offers himself a Ransom for Man: the Father accepts him, ordains his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven and Earth; commands all the Angels to adore him; they obey, and hymning to thir Harps in full Choir, celebrate the Father and the Son.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile<\/em> Satan alights upon the bare convex of this World\u2019s outermost Orb; where wand\u2019ring he first finds a place since call\u2019d The Limbo of Vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence comes to the Gate of Heaven, describ\u2019d ascending by stairs, and the waters above the Firmament that flow about it: His passage thence to the Orb of the Sun; he finds there<\/em> Uriel the Regent of that Orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner Angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new Creation and Man whom God had plac\u2019t there, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights first on Mount<\/em> Niphates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book III of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ offers to Redeem Man<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.7 cm
\nWidth: 20.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cAs in him perish all men, so in thee
\nAs from a second root shall be restor\u2019d,
\nAs many as are restor\u2019d, without thee none.\u2026
\nBecause thou hast, though Thron\u2019d in highest bliss
\nEqual to God, and equally enjoying
\nGod-like fruition, quitted all to save
\nA world from utter loss, and hast been found
\nBy Merit more than Birthright Son of God,
\nFound worthiest to be so by being Good,
\nFar more than Great or High; because in thee
\nLove hath abounded more than Glory abounds,
\nTherefore thy Humiliation shall exalt
\nWith thee thy Manhood also to this Throne;
\nHere shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt Reign
\nBoth God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
\nAnointed universal King;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 all Power
\nI give thee, reign for ever, and assume
\nThy Merits.\u2026
\n\u2026But all ye Gods,
\nAdore him, who to compass all this dies,
\nAdore the Son, and honor him as mee.
\nNo sooner had th\u2019 Almighty ceas\u2019t, but all
\nThe multitude of Angels with a shout
\nLoud as from numbers without number, sweet
\nAs from blest voices, uttering joy, Heav\u2019n rung
\nWith Jubilee, and loud Hosannas fill\u2019d
\nTh\u2019 eternal Regions:\u00a0\u00a0 lowly reverent
\nTowards either Throne they bow, and to the ground
\nWith solemn adoration down they cast
\nThir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book III, 287\u201389, 305\u201319, 341\u201352)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christ Accepting the Office of Redeemer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.6 cm
\nWidth: 39.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cAs in him perish all men, so in thee
\nAs from a second root shall be restor\u2019d,
\nAs many as are restor\u2019d, without thee none.\u2026
\nBecause thou hast, though Thron\u2019d in highest bliss
\nEqual to God, and equally enjoying
\nGod-like fruition, quitted all to save
\nA world from utter loss, and hast been found
\nBy Merit more than Birthright Son of God,
\nFound worthiest to be so by being Good,
\nFar more than Great or High; because in thee
\nLove hath abounded more than Glory abounds,
\nTherefore thy Humiliation shall exalt
\nWith thee thy Manhood also to this Throne;
\nHere shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt Reign
\nBoth God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
\nAnointed universal King; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all Power
\nI give thee, reign for ever, and assume
\nThy Merits.\u2026
\n\u2026But all ye Gods,
\nAdore him, who to compass all this dies,
\nAdore the Son, and honor him as mee.
\nNo sooner had th\u2019 Almighty ceas\u2019t, but all
\nThe multitude of Angels with a shout
\nLoud as from numbers without number, sweet
\nAs from blest voices, uttering joy, Heav\u2019n rung
\nWith Jubilee, and loud Hosannas fill\u2019d
\nTh\u2019 eternal Regions:\u00a0 \u00a0lowly reverent
\nTowards either Throne they bow, and to the ground
\nWith solemn adoration down they cast
\nThir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book III, 287\u201389, 305\u201319, 341\u201352)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0IV \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan now in prospect of<\/em> Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and situation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of Life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.\u00a0\u00a0 The Garden describ\u2019d;<\/em> Satan\u2019s first sight of<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve; his wonder at thir excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work thir fall; overhears thir discourse, thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death; and thereon intends to found his Temptation, by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while, to know further of thir state by some other means.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile<\/em> Uriel descending on a Sun-beam warns<\/em> Gabriel, who had in charge the Gate of Paradise, that some evil spirit had escap\u2019d the Deep, and past at Noon by his Sphere in the shape of a good Angel down to Paradise, discovered after by his furious gestures in the Mount.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriel promises to find him ere morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Night coming on,<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve discourse of going to thir rest: thir Bower describ\u2019d; thir Evening worship.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriel drawing forth his Bands of Night-watch to walk the round of Paradise, appoints two strong Angels to<\/em> Adam\u2019s Bower, lest the evil spirit should be there doing some harm to<\/em> Adam or<\/em> Eve sleeping; there they find him at the ear of<\/em> Eve, tempting her in a dream, and bring him, though unwilling, to<\/em> Gabriel; by whom question\u2019d, he scornfully answers, prepares resistance, but hinder\u2019d by a Sign from Heaven, flies out of Paradise.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Spying on Adam and Eve\u2019s Descent into Paradise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.1 cm
\nWidth: 20.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhen Satan<\/em> still in gaze, as first he stood,
\nScarce thus at length fail\u2019d speech recover\u2019d sad.
\nO Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold,
\nInto our room of bliss thus high advanc\u2019t
\nCreatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps,
\nNot Spirits, yet to heav\u2019nly Spirits bright
\nLittle inferior; whom my thoughts pursue
\nWith wonder, and could love, so lively shines
\nIn them Divine resemblance, and such grace
\nThe hand that form\u2019d them on thir shape hath pour\u2019d.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 356\u201365)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.7 cm
\nWidth: 21.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake our general Mother, and with eyes
\nOf conjugal attraction unreprov\u2019d,
\nAnd meek surrender, half imbracing lean\u2019d
\nOn our first Father, half her swelling Breast
\nNaked met his under the flowing Gold
\nOf her loose tresses hid: hee in delight
\nBoth of her Beauty and submissive Charms
\nSmil\u2019d with superior Love, as Jupiter<\/em>
\nOn Juno<\/em> smiles, when he impregns the Clouds
\nThat shed May<\/em> Flowers; and press\u2019d her Matron lip
\nWith kisses pure: aside the Devil turn\u2019d
\nFor envy, yet with jealous leer malign
\nEy\u2019d them askance, and to himself thus plain\u2019d.
\nSight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two
\nImparadis\u2019t in one another\u2019s arms
\nThe happier Eden,<\/em> shall enjoy thir fill
\nOf bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,
\nWhere neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
\nAmong our other torments not the least,
\nStill unfulfill\u2019d with pain of longing pines\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 492\u2013511)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nWilliam Bell Scott, after William Blake
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching on chine coll\u00e9
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 18.1 cm (image)
\nWidth: 14.1 cm (image)
\nHeight: 26.5 cm (plate)
\nWidth: 20 cm (plate)
\nHeight: 34.8 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 26.6 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake our general Mother, and with eyes
\nOf conjugal attraction unreprov\u2019d,
\nAnd meek surrender, half imbracing lean\u2019d
\nOn our first Father, half her swelling Breast
\nNaked met his under the flowing Gold
\nOf her loose tresses hid: hee in delight
\nBoth of her Beauty and submissive Charms
\nSmil\u2019d with superior Love, as Jupiter<\/em>
\nOn Juno<\/em> smiles, when he impregns the Clouds
\nThat shed May<\/em> Flowers; and press\u2019d her Matron lip
\nWith kisses pure: aside the Devil turn\u2019d
\nFor envy, yet with jealous leer malign
\nEy\u2019d them askance, and to himself thus plain\u2019d.
\nSight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two
\nImparadis\u2019t in one another\u2019s arms
\nThe happier Eden,<\/em> shall enjoy thir fill
\nOf bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,
\nWhere neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
\nAmong our other torments not the least,
\nStill unfulfill\u2019d with pain of longing pines\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 492\u2013511)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50.5 cm
\nWidth: 38 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake our general Mother, and with eyes
\nOf conjugal attraction unreprov\u2019d,
\nAnd meek surrender, half imbracing lean\u2019d
\nOn our first Father, half her swelling Breast
\nNaked met his under the flowing Gold
\nOf her loose tresses hid: hee in delight
\nBoth of her Beauty and submissive Charms
\nSmil\u2019d with superior Love, as Jupiter<\/em>
\nOn Juno<\/em> smiles, when he impregns the Clouds
\nThat shed May<\/em> Flowers; and press\u2019d her Matron lip
\nWith kisses pure: aside the Devil turn\u2019d
\nFor envy, yet with jealous leer malign
\nEy\u2019d them askance, and to himself thus plain\u2019d.
\nSight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two
\nImparadis\u2019t in one another\u2019s arms
\nThe happier Eden,<\/em> shall enjoy thir fill
\nOf bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,
\nWhere neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
\nAmong our other torments not the least,
\nStill unfulfill\u2019d with pain of longing pines\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 492\u2013511)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1822
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and ink and watercolour over traces of black chalk, with gum and stippling and sponging
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 52.8 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 39 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake our general Mother, and with eyes
\nOf conjugal attraction unreprov\u2019d,
\nAnd meek surrender, half imbracing lean\u2019d
\nOn our first Father, half her swelling Breast
\nNaked met his under the flowing Gold
\nOf her loose tresses hid: hee in delight
\nBoth of her Beauty and submissive Charms
\nSmil\u2019d with superior Love, as Jupiter<\/em>
\nOn Juno<\/em> smiles, when he impregns the Clouds
\nThat shed May<\/em> Flowers; and press\u2019d her Matron lip
\nWith kisses pure: aside the Devil turn\u2019d
\nFor envy, yet with jealous leer malign
\nEy\u2019d them askance, and to himself thus plain\u2019d.
\nSight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two
\nImparadis\u2019t in one another\u2019s arms
\nThe happier Eden,<\/em> shall enjoy thir fill
\nOf bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,
\nWhere neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
\nAmong our other torments not the least,
\nStill unfulfill\u2019d with pain of longing pines\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 492\u2013511)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adam and Eve Sleeping<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.2 cm
\nWidth: 38.7 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026these to the Bower direct
\nIn search of whom they sought: him there they found
\nSquat like a Toad, close at the ear of Eve;<\/em>
\nAssaying by his Devilish art to reach
\nThe Organs of her Fancy, and with them forge
\nIllusions as he list, Phantasms and Dreams,
\nOr if, inspiring venom, he might taint
\nTh\u2019 animal spirits that from pure blood arise
\nLike gentle breaths from Rivers pure, thence raise
\nAt least distemper\u2019d, discontented thoughts,
\nVain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires
\nBlown up with high conceits ingend\u2019ring pride.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 798\u2013809)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0V \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMorning approacht,<\/em> Eve relates to<\/em> Adam her troublesome dream; he likes it not, yet comforts her: They come forth to thir day labors: Thir Morning Hymn at the Door of thir Bower.\u00a0\u00a0 God to render Man inexcusable sends<\/em> Raphael to admonish him of his obedience, of his free estate, of his enemy near at hand; who he is, and why his enemy, and whatever else may avail<\/em> Adam to know.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Raphael comes down to Paradise, his appearance describ\u2019d, his coming discern\u2019d by<\/em> Adam afar off sitting at the door of his Bower; he goes out to meet him, brings him to his lodge, entertains him with the choicest fruits of Paradise got together by<\/em> Eve; thir discourse at Table:<\/em> Raphael performs his message, minds<\/em> Adam of his state and of his enemy; relates at<\/em> Adam\u2019s request who that enemy is, and how he came to be so, beginning from his first revolt in Heaven, and the occasion thereof; how he drew his Legions after him to the parts of the North, and there incited them to rebel with him, persuading all but only<\/em> Abdiel a Seraph, who in Argument dissuades and opposes him, then forsakes him.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book V of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.7 cm
\nWidth: 20.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThus Adam<\/em> made request, and Rapha\u00ebl<\/em>
\nAfter short pause assenting, thus began.
\nHigh matter thou injoin\u2019st me, O prime of men,
\nSad task and hard, for how shall I relate
\nTo human sense th\u2019 invisible exploits
\nOf warring Spirits; how without remorse
\nThe ruin of so many glorious once
\nAnd perfet while they stood; how last unfold
\nThe secrets of another World, perhaps
\nNot lawful to reveal? yet for thy good
\nThis is dispens\u2019t, and what surmounts the reach
\nOf human sense, I shall delineate so,
\nBy lik\u2019ning spiritual to corporal forms,
\nAs may express them best, though what if Earth
\nBe but the shadow of Heav\u2019n, and things therein
\nEach to other like more than on Earth is thought?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book V, 561\u201376)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.8 cm
\nWidth: 39.8 cm
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThus Adam<\/em> made request, and Rapha\u00ebl<\/em>
\nAfter short pause assenting, thus began.
\nHigh matter thou injoin\u2019st me, O prime of men,
\nSad task and hard, for how shall I relate
\nTo human sense th\u2019 invisible exploits
\nOf warring Spirits; how without remorse
\nThe ruin of so many glorious once
\nAnd perfet while they stood; how last unfold
\nThe secrets of another World, perhaps
\nNot lawful to reveal? yet for thy good
\nThis is dispens\u2019t, and what surmounts the reach
\nOf human sense, I shall delineate so,
\nBy lik\u2019ning spiritual to corporal forms,
\nAs may express them best, though what if Earth
\nBe but the shadow of Heav\u2019n, and things therein
\nEach to other like more than on Earth is thought?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book V, 561\u201376)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0VI \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRaphael continues to relate how<\/em> Michael and<\/em> Gabriel were sent forth to Battle against<\/em> Satan and his Angels.\u00a0\u00a0 To first Fight describ\u2019d:<\/em> Satan and his Powers retire under Night: He calls a Council, invents devilish Engines, which in the second day\u2019s Fight put<\/em> Michael and his Angels to some disorder; but they at length pulling up Mountains overwhelm\u2019d both the force and Machines of<\/em> Satan: Yet the Tumult not so ending, God on the third day sends<\/em> Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserv\u2019d the glory of that Victory: Hee in the Power of his Father coming to the place, and causing all his Legions to stand still on either side, with his Chariot and Thunder driving into the midst of his Enemies, pursues them unable to resist towards the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepar\u2019d for them in the Deep:<\/em> Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book VI of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Rout of the Rebel Angels<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 28.8 centimeters
\nWidth: 20.8 centimeters
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe overthrown he rais\u2019d, and as a Herd
\nOf Goats or timorous flock together throng\u2019d
\nDrove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu\u2019d
\nWith terrors and with furies to the bounds
\nAnd Crystal wall of Heav\u2019n, which op\u2019ning wide,
\nRoll\u2019d inward, and a spacious Gap disclos\u2019d
\nInto the wasteful Deep; the monstrous sight
\nStruck them with horror backward, but far worse
\nUrg\u2019d them behind; headlong themselves they threw
\nDown from the verge of Heav\u2019n, Eternal wrath
\nBurn\u2019d after them to the bottomless pit.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VI, 856\u201366)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.6 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 39.3 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe overthrown he rais\u2019d, and as a Herd
\nOf Goats or timorous flock together throng\u2019d
\nDrove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu\u2019d
\nWith terrors and with furies to the bounds
\nAnd Crystal wall of Heav\u2019n, which op\u2019ning wide,
\nRoll\u2019d inward, and a spacious Gap disclos\u2019d
\nInto the wasteful Deep; the monstrous sight
\nStruck them with horror backward, but far worse
\nUrg\u2019d them behind; headlong themselves they threw
\nDown from the verge of Heav\u2019n, Eternal wrath
\nBurn\u2019d after them to the bottomless pit.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VI, 856\u201366)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0VIII \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAdam inquires concerning celestial Motions, is doubtfully answer\u2019d, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge:<\/em> Adam assents, and still desirous to detain<\/em> Raphael, relates to him what he remember\u2019d since his own Creation, his placing in Paradise, his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society, his first meeting and Nuptials with<\/em> Eve, his discourse with the Angel thereupon; who after admonitions repeated departs.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book VIII of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Creation of Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.3 cm
\nWidth: 20.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cMine eyes he clos\u2019d, but op\u2019n left the Cell
\nOf Fancy my internal sight, by which
\nAbstract as in a trance methought I saw,
\nThough sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
\nStill glorious before whom awake I stood;
\nWho stooping op\u2019n\u2019d my left side, and took
\nFrom thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warm,
\nAnd Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
\nBut suddenly with flesh fill\u2019d up and heal\u2019d:
\nThe Rib he form\u2019d and fashion\u2019d with his hands;
\nUnder his forming hands a Creature grew,
\nManlike, but different sex, so lovely fair,
\nThat what seem\u2019d fair in all the World, seem\u2019d now
\nMean, or in her summ\u2019d up, in her contain\u2019d
\nAnd in her looks, which from that time infus\u2019d
\nSweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
\nAnd into all things from her Air inspir\u2019d
\nThe spirit of love and amorous delight.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VIII, 460\u201377)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Creation of Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50.3 cm
\nWidth: 40 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cMine eyes he clos\u2019d, but op\u2019n left the Cell
\nOf Fancy my internal sight, by which
\nAbstract as in a trance methought I saw,
\nThough sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
\nStill glorious before whom awake I stood;
\nWho stooping op\u2019n\u2019d my left side, and took
\nFrom thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warm,
\nAnd Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
\nBut suddenly with flesh fill\u2019d up and heal\u2019d:
\nThe Rib he form\u2019d and fashion\u2019d with his hands;
\nUnder his forming hands a Creature grew,
\nManlike, but different sex, so lovely fair,
\nThat what seem\u2019d fair in all the World, seem\u2019d now
\nMean, or in her summ\u2019d up, in her contain\u2019d
\nAnd in her looks, which from that time infus\u2019d
\nSweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
\nAnd into all things from her Air inspir\u2019d
\nThe spirit of love and amorous delight.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VIII, 460\u201377)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Creation of Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1822
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown and black ink and watercolor over pencil and black chalk, with stippling and sponging
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50.4 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 40.7 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cMine eyes he clos\u2019d, but op\u2019n left the Cell
\nOf Fancy my internal sight, by which
\nAbstract as in a trance methought I saw,
\nThough sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
\nStill glorious before whom awake I stood;
\nWho stooping op\u2019n\u2019d my left side, and took
\nFrom thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warm,
\nAnd Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
\nBut suddenly with flesh fill\u2019d up and heal\u2019d:
\nThe Rib he form\u2019d and fashion\u2019d with his hands;
\nUnder his forming hands a Creature grew,
\nManlike, but different sex, so lovely fair,
\nThat what seem\u2019d fair in all the World, seem\u2019d now
\nMean, or in her summ\u2019d up, in her contain\u2019d
\nAnd in her looks, which from that time infus\u2019d
\nSweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
\nAnd into all things from her Air inspir\u2019d
\nThe spirit of love and amorous delight.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VIII, 460\u201377)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0IX \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Adam and<\/em> Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labors, which<\/em> Eve proposes to divide in several places, each laboring apart:<\/em> Adam consents not, alleging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarn\u2019d, should attempt her found alone:<\/em> Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength;<\/em> Adam at last yields: The Serpent finds her alone; his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling<\/em> Eve above all other Creatures.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Eve wond\u2019ring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain\u2019d to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain\u2019d both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both:<\/em> Eve requires him to bring her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; she pleas\u2019d with the taste deliberates awhile whether to impart thereof to<\/em> Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what persuaded her to eat thereof:<\/em> Adam at first amaz\u2019d, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover thir nakedness; then fall to variance and accusation of one another.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book IX of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Temptation and Fall of Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.4 centimeters
\nWidth: 20.8 centimeters
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhat can your knowledge hurt him, or this Tree
\nImpart against his will if all be his?
\nOr is it envy, and can envy dwell
\nIn heav\u2019nly breasts? these, these and many more
\nCauses import your need of this fair Fruit.
\nGoddess humane, reach then, and freely taste.
\nHe ended, and his words replete with guile
\nInto her heart too easy entrance won.\u2026
\nSo saying, her rash hand in evil hour
\nForth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck\u2019d, she eat\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IX, 727\u201334, 780\u201381)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Temptation and Fall of Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 49.7 cm
\nWidth: 38.7 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhat can your knowledge hurt him, or this Tree
\nImpart against his will if all be his?
\nOr is it envy, and can envy dwell
\nIn heav\u2019nly breasts? these, these and many more
\nCauses import your need of this fair Fruit.
\nGoddess humane, reach then, and freely taste.
\nHe ended, and his words replete with guile
\nInto her heart too easy entrance won.\u2026
\nSo saying, her rash hand in evil hour
\nForth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck\u2019d, she eat\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IX, 727\u201334, 780\u201381)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0X \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMan\u2019s transgression known, the Guardian Angels forsake Paradise, and return up to Heaven to approve thir vigilance, and are approv\u2019d, God declaring that the entrance of<\/em> Satan could not be by them prevented.\u00a0\u00a0 He sends his Son to judge the Transgressors, who descends and gives Sentence accordingly; then in pity clothes them both, and reascends.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Sin and<\/em> Death sitting till then at the Gates of Hell, by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of<\/em> Satan in this new World, and the sin by Man there committed, resolve to sit no longer confin\u2019d in Hell, but to follow<\/em> Satan thir Sire up to the place of Man: To make the way easier from Hell to this World to and fro, they pave a broad Highway or Bridge over<\/em> Chaos, according to the Track that<\/em> Satan first made; then preparing for Earth, they meet him proud of his success returning to Hell; thir mutual gratulation.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Satan arrives at<\/em> Pandemonium, in full assembly relates with boasting his success against Man; instead of applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience, transform\u2019d with himself also suddenly into Serpents, according to his doom giv\u2019n in Paradise; then deluded with a show of the forbidden Tree springing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the Fruit, chew dust and bitter ashes.\u00a0\u00a0 The proceedings of<\/em> Sin and<\/em> Death; God foretells the final Victory of his Son over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Adam more and more perceiving his fall\u2019n condition heavily bewails, rejects the condolement of<\/em> Eve; she persists and at length appeases him: then to evade the Curse likely to fall on thir Offspring, proposes to<\/em> Adam violent ways, which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts her in mind of the late Promise made them, that her Seed should be reveng\u2019d on the Serpent, and exhorts her with him to seek Peace of the offended Deity, by repentance and supplication.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book X of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Judgment of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25 cm
\nWidth: 20.2 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo judg\u2019d he Man, both Judge and Savior sent,
\nAnd th\u2019 instant stroke of Death denounc\u2019t that day
\nRemov\u2019d far off; then pitying how they stood
\nBefore him naked to the air, that now
\nMust suffer change, disdain\u2019d not to begin
\nThenceforth the form of servant to assume,
\nAs when he wash\u2019d his servants\u2019 feet, so now
\nAs Father of his Family he clad
\nThir nakedness with Skins of Beasts, or slain,
\nOr as the Snake with youthful Coat repaid;
\nAnd thought not much to clothe his Enemies:
\nNor hee thir outward only with the Skins
\nOf Beasts, but inward nakedness, much more
\nOpprobious, with his Robe of righteousness,
\nArraying cover\u2019d from his Father\u2019s sight.
\nTo him with swift ascent he up return\u2019d,
\nInto his blissful bosom reassum\u2019d
\nIn glory as of old, to him appeas\u2019d
\nAll, though all-knowing, what had past with Man
\nRecounted, mixing intercession sweet.\u2026
\nSo saying he [Satan] dismiss\u2019d them [Sin and Death], they with speed
\nThir course through thickest Constellations held
\nSpreading thir bane; the blasted Stars lookt wan,
\nAnd Planets, Planet-strook, real Eclipse
\nThen suffer\u2019d.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book X, 209\u201328, 410\u201314)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0XI \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Son of God presents to his Father the Prayers of our first Parents now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends<\/em> Michael with a Band of Cherubim to dispossess them; but first to reveal to<\/em> Adam future things:<\/em> Michael\u2019s coming down.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Adam shows to<\/em> Eve certain ominous signs; he discerns<\/em> Michael\u2019s approach, goes out to meet him: the Angel denounces thir departure.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Eve\u2019s Lamentation.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Adam pleads, but submits: The Angel leads him up to a high Hill, sets before him in vision what shall happ\u2019n till the Flood.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book XI of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The House of Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1795\u20131805
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nColor print, ink and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 48.5 cm
\nWidth: 61 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nTate Britain<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026Immediately a place
\nBefore his eyes appear\u2019d, sad, noisome, dark,
\nA Lazar-house it seem\u2019d, wherein were laid
\nNumbers of all diseas\u2019d, all maladies
\nOf ghastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualms
\nOf heart-sick Agony, all feverous kinds,
\nConvulsions, Epilepsies, fierce Catarrhs,
\nIntestine Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs,
\nD\u00e6moniac Frenzy, moping Melancholy
\nAnd Moon-struck madness, pining Atrophy,
\nMarasmus, and wide-wasting Pestilence,
\nDropsies, and Asthmas, and Joint-racking Rheums.
\nDire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair
\nTended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch;
\nAnd over them triumphant Death his Dart
\nShook, but delay\u2019d to strike, though oft invok\u2019t
\nWith vows, as thir chief good, and final hope.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XI, 477\u201393)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0XII \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Angel<\/em> Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of<\/em> Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve in the Fall; his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension; the state of the Church till his second Coming.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Adam greatly satisfied and recomforted by these Relations and Promises descends the Hill with<\/em> Michael; wakens<\/em> Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams compos\u2019d to quietness of mind and submission.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery Sword waving behind them, and the Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book XII of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Michael Foretelling the Crucifixion to Adam<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 25.2 cm
\nWidth: 20.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Law of God exact he shall fulfil
\nBoth by obedience and by love, though love
\nAlone fulfil the Law; thy punishment
\nHe shall endure by coming in the Flesh
\nTo a reproachful life and cursed death,
\nProclaiming Life to all who shall believe
\nIn his redemption, and that his obedience
\nImputed becomes theirs by Faith, his merits
\nTo save them, not thir own, though legal works.
\nFor this he shall live hated, be blasphem\u2019d,
\nSeiz\u2019d on by force, judg\u2019d, and to death condemn\u2019d
\nA shameful and accurst, nail\u2019d to the Cross
\nBy his own Nation, slain for bringing Life;
\nBut to the Cross he nails thy Enemies,
\nThe Law that is against thee, and the sins
\nOf all mankind, with him there crucifi\u2019d,
\nNever to hurt them more who rightly trust
\nIn this his satisfaction; so he dies,
\nBut soon revives, Death over him no power
\nShall long usurp; ere the third dawning light
\nReturn, the Stars of Morn shall see him rise
\nOut of his grave, fresh as the dawning light,
\nThy ransom paid, which Man from death redeems,
\nHis death for Man, as many as offer\u2019d Life
\nNeglect not, and the benefit embrace
\nBy Faith not void of works: this God-like act
\nAnnuls thy doom, the death thou shouldst have di\u2019d,
\nIn sin for ever lost from life; this act
\nShall bruise the head of Satan,<\/em> crush his strength
\nDefeating Sin and Death, his two main arms,
\nAnd fix far deeper in his head thir stings
\nThan temporal death shall bruise the Victor\u2019s heel,
\nOr theirs whom he redeems, a death like sleep,
\nA gentle wafting to immortal Life.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XII, 402\u201335)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Michael Foretelling the Crucifixion to Adam<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50.2 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 38.1 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Law of God exact he shall fulfil
\nBoth by obedience and by love, though love
\nAlone fulfil the Law; thy punishment
\nHe shall endure by coming in the Flesh
\nTo a reproachful life and cursed death,
\nProclaiming Life to all who shall believe
\nIn his redemption, and that his obedience
\nImputed becomes theirs by Faith, his merits
\nTo save them, not thir own, though legal works.
\nFor this he shall live hated, be blasphem\u2019d,
\nSeiz\u2019d on by force, judg\u2019d, and to death condemn\u2019d
\nA shameful and accurst, nail\u2019d to the Cross
\nBy his own Nation, slain for bringing Life;
\nBut to the Cross he nails thy Enemies,
\nThe Law that is against thee, and the sins
\nOf all mankind, with him there crucifi\u2019d,
\nNever to hurt them more who rightly trust
\nIn this his satisfaction; so he dies,
\nBut soon revives, Death over him no power
\nShall long usurp; ere the third dawning light
\nReturn, the Stars of Morn shall see him rise
\nOut of his grave, fresh as the dawning light,
\nThy ransom paid, which Man from death redeems,
\nHis death for Man, as many as offer\u2019d Life
\nNeglect not, and the benefit embrace
\nBy Faith not void of works: this God-like act
\nAnnuls thy doom, the death thou shouldst have di\u2019d,
\nIn sin for ever lost from life; this act
\nShall bruise the head of Satan,<\/em> crush his strength
\nDefeating Sin and Death, his two main arms,
\nAnd fix far deeper in his head thir stings
\nThan temporal death shall bruise the Victor\u2019s heel,
\nOr theirs whom he redeems, a death like sleep,
\nA gentle wafting to immortal Life.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XII, 402\u201335)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Expulsion from Eden<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.9 cm
\nWidth: 20.5 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, CA
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026In either hand the hast\u2019ning Angel caught
\nOur ling\u2019ring Parents, and to th\u2019 Eastern Gate
\nLed them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
\nTo the subjected Plain; then disappear\u2019d.
\nThey looking back, all th\u2019 Eastern side beheld
\nOf Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
\nWav\u2019d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
\nWith dreadful Faces throng\u2019d and fiery Arms:
\nSome natural tears they dropp\u2019d, but wip\u2019d them soon;
\nThe World was all before them, where to choose
\nThir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
\nThey hand in hand with wand\u2019ring steps and slow,
\nThrough Eden<\/em> took thir solitary way.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XII, 637\u201349)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Expulsion from Eden<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1808
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50 cm
\nWidth: 38.7 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Boston
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026In either hand the hast\u2019ning Angel caught
\nOur ling\u2019ring Parents, and to th\u2019 Eastern Gate
\nLed them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
\nTo the subjected Plain; then disappear\u2019d.
\nThey looking back, all th\u2019 Eastern side beheld
\nOf Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
\nWav\u2019d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
\nWith dreadful Faces throng\u2019d and fiery Arms:
\nSome natural tears they dropp\u2019d, but wip\u2019d them soon;
\nThe World was all before them, where to choose
\nThir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
\nThey hand in hand with wand\u2019ring steps and slow,
\nThrough Eden<\/em> took thir solitary way.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XII, 637\u201349)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MISCELLANEOUS\u00a0 MILTONIC\u00a0 ILLUSTRATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Satan Exulting over Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1795
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nGraphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 42.5 cm
\nWidth: 53.5 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Getty<\/a>, Los Angeles
\nTate Britain<\/a>, London<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan in His Original Glory: \u201cThou Wast Perfect Till Iniquity was Found in Thee\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1805
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nInk and watercolor on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 42.9 cm
\nWidth: 33.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nTate Britain<\/a>, London<\/p>\n

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