...Disobedience, and the Fruit, Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste, Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse. (Milton 1667-74 [1962: 5]) "As [also] might have been expected," we read in The Golden...

...Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse,12 I leave the sentence midway at this imperative. In ordinary grammatical or syntactic...

...Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse. (1.1-6) 31 In the phrase, "Of Man's first disobedience," "Man's" may be read as a synecdochic...

...Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal last Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top OfOreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught...

...disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the World and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man...and regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Qreb, or of Sinai> didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen...

...Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Source: Complete Poems and Major Prose: Book 1, Indianapolis,...

...disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse.' Observe that this first source of Homeric rapidity is not a necessary or universal characteristic of...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. With loss of Eden, till one greater man0...and regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly muse, that on the secret top0 Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire0 That shepherd, who first taught the chosen...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one Greater Man...and regain the blissful seat. Sing Heavenly Muse. . . . — John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 1-6 Romanticism William Blake, the first Romantic...