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Special offer. John Milton - Paradise Lost

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read by Anton Lesser

John Milton - Paradise Lost

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Milton: Paradise Lost
Work length10:41:04
Book 1 - The Argument: This first book proposes…
Track length3:20
Book 1: Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit…
Track length4:00
There the companions of his fall…
Track length4:09
Whereto with speedy words th’Arch-Fiend replied…
Track length3:22
Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool…
Track length3:34
He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend…
Track length5:22
The chief were those who, from the pit of Hell…
Track length4:11
Next came one Who mourned in earnest…
Track length3:41
All these and more came flocking…
Track length3:43
Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess…
Track length5:07
There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top…
Track length4:26
Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command…
Track length2:43
Book 2 - The Argument: The Consultation begun…
Track length2:11
Book 2: High on a throne of royal state…
Track length5:48
He ended frowning, and his look denounced…
Track length4:39
War, therefore, open or concealed, alike…
Track length2:25
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason’s garb…
Track length3:06
He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled…
Track length5:22
Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel…
Track length2:18
This said, he sat; and expectation held…
Track length4:51
The Stygian council thus dissolved; and forth…
Track length4:34
Beyond this flood a frozen continent…
Track length2:36
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and Man…
Track length4:08
So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape…
Track length5:55
She finished: and the subtle Fiend his lore Soon learned…
Track length3:14
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key…
Track length5:53
T’ whom Satan, turning boldly, thus: – Ye Powers…
Track length5:24
Book 3 - The Argument: God sitting on his Throne…
Track length3:08
Book 3: Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn…
Track length4:48
Only begotten Son, seest thou what rage…
Track length4:00
O Father, gracious was that word which clos'd…
Track length5:15
Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace…
Track length3:28
Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem…
Track length3:42
No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all…
Track length3:54
Mean while upon the firm opacous globe…
Track length4:58
All this dark globe the Fiend found as he passed…
Track length4:47
There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps…
Track length3:52
Uriel, for thou of those seven Spirits that stand…
Track length5:25
Book 4 - The Argument: Satan now in prospect of Eden...
Track length3:00
Book 4: O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw…
Track length5:12
But say I could repent, and could obtain…
Track length4:24
Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill…
Track length5:20
Not that fair field Of Enna where Proserpine gathering…
Track length5:02
O Hell! What do mine eyes with grief behold!
Track length5:07
To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom…
Track length3:11
So spake our general mother, and with eyes…
Track length3:01
So saying, his proud step he scornful turned…
Track length3:26
Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray…
Track length5:09
Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed…
Track length4:51
These, lulled by nightingales, embracing slept…
Track length5:09
The Fiend replied not, overcome with rage…
Track length5:03
To whom the warrior Angel soon replied
Track length4:43
Book 5 - The Argument: Morning approacht, Eve relates to Adam…
Track length2:08
Book 5: Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime…
Track length5:25
Thus Eve her night Related, and thus Adam answered sad
Track length3:20
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good…
Track length3:13
On to their morning's rural work they haste…
Track length4:51
Him through the spicy forest onward come…
Track length4:59
Hail, Mother of Mankind, whose fruitful womb…
Track length4:28
O Adam, One Almighty, is, from whom…
Track length5:18
High matter thou enjoinest me, O prime of men…
Track length4:25
Now when ambrosial night with clouds exhaled…
Track length3:57
Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns…
Track length3:14
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers…
Track length4:11
So spake the fervent Angel; but his zeal…
Track length3:33
Book 6 - The Argument: Raphael continues to relate…
Track length2:05
Book 6: All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued…
Track length3:05
So spake the Sovran Voice, and clouds began…
Track length3:44
So pondering, and from his armed peers…
Track length4:29
Now storming fury rose…
Track length3:49
So spake the Prince of Angels; to whom thus…
Track length4:30
Mean while in other parts like deeds deserved…
Track length5:34
He sat; and in the assembly next upstood…
Track length4:26
Now when fair morn orient in Heaven appeared…
Track length4:33
Satan beheld their plight…
Track length4:00
Effulgence of my glory, Son beloved…
Track length3:48
So said he, o’er his scepter bowing, rose…
Track length4:20
So spake the son and into terrour changed…
Track length5:44
Book 7 - The Argument: Raphael at the request of Adam…
Track length1:25
Book 7: Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name…
Track length3:42
Great things, and full of wonder in our ears…
Track length3:28
At least our envious Foe hath failed, who thought…
Track length4:33
Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand…
Track length4:39
He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then…
Track length3:56
And God said, Let the waters generate…
Track length3:26
The sixth, and of creation last arose…
Track length5:37
Here finished he, and all that he had made…
Track length5:25
Book 8 - The Argument: Adam inquires concerning celestial Motions…
Track length1:25
Book 8: The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear…
Track length3:40
And Raphael now to Adam’s doubt proposed…
Track length5:10
But whether thus these things, or whether not…
Track length5:17
For Man to tell how human life began…
Track length4:56
Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction…
Track length4:20
He ceased; I lowly answered. To attain…
Track length4:59
She heard me thus; and though divinely brought…
Track length5:29
To whom thus, half abashed, Adam replied
Track length3:41
Book 9 - The Argument: Satan having compast the Earth…
Track length2:57
Book 9: No more of talk where God or Angel guest…
Track length5:17
More justly, seat worthier of Gods, as built…
Track length5:26
Now, when as sacred light began to dawn…
Track length4:20
Offspring of Heaven and Earth, and all Earth’s Lord!
Track length3:50
To whom thus Adam fervently replied
Track length4:34
For now, and since first break of dawn, the Fiend…
Track length5:18
So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed…
Track length3:32
So glozed the Tempter and his proem tuned…
Track length4:49
Lead then, said Eve. He, leading, swiftly rolled…
Track length4:14
Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil…
Track length2:55
He ended; and his words replete with guile…
Track length3:22
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat…
Track length3:57
To him she hasted; in her face excuse…
Track length3:53
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve…
Track length5:28
Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste…
Track length4:46
So counselled he, and both together went…
Track length5:03
Book 10 - The Argument: Mans transgression known…
Track length3:16
Book 10: Mean while the heinous and despiteful act…
Track length4:40
Thus saying, from his radiant seat he rose…
Track length4:41
Which when the Lord God heard, without delay…
Track length3:40
Mean while, ere thus was sinned and judged on Earth…
Track length4:17
So, if great things to small may be compared…
Track length6:11
So saying he dismissed them; they with speed…
Track length5:47
So having said, a while he stood, expecting…
Track length4:40
Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair…
Track length3:40
Such was their song…
Track length3:41
O miserable of happy! Is this the end…
Track length3:22
Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die…
Track length3:51
Thus Adam to himself lamented loud…
Track length3:41
Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness Heaven…
Track length5:36
But Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed…
Track length5:04
Book 11 - The Argument: The Son of God presents to his Father…
Track length1:38
Book 11: Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood…
Track length4:55
O Sons, like one of us Man is become…
Track length5:31
So spake, so wished much humbled Eve; but Fate…
Track length5:02
O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death!
Track length4:35
But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down…
Track length4:14
But him the gentle Angel by the hand…
Track length3:39
Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared…
Track length5:04
He looked, and saw a spacious plain whereon…
Track length4:47
He looked, and saw wide territory spread…
Track length4:26
He looked, and saw the face of things quite changed…
Track length4:34
To whom thus Michael
Track length3:41
The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground…
Track length3:14
Book 12 - The Argument: The Angel Michael continues from the flood…
Track length1:42
Book 12: As one who in his journey bates at noon…
Track length4:24
To whom thus Michael
Track length5:03
But first the lawless tyrant who denies…
Track length5:29
Here Adam interposed. O sent from Heaven…
Track length4:16
There in captivity he lets them dwell…
Track length3:59
For this he shall live hated, be blasphemed…
Track length3:14
So spake the Arch-Angel Michael; then paused…
Track length4:56
How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest…
Track length6:31
[Music] Jenkins: Fantasia in E Minor
Track length4:08
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