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• Opened we find indeed, and find we know
• Fall’n Cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering: but of this be sure,70 To do aught good never will be our task,71 160 But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his Providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, 165 And out of good stil...
• Receive thy new possessor: one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself103 255 Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
• dangerous expedition to invade Heav’n, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. What if we find 345 Some easier enterprise? There is a place (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heav’n Err not) another world, the happy seat Of some new race called Man, about this time To be created like to us, though less96 350 In power and e...
• whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt with wand’ring feet112 405 The dark unbottomed infinite abyss113 And through the palpable obscure find out114 His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight