...Paradise itself; and here again Milton shall be your instructor— " Hail, wedded love, mysterious lavr, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In paradise, of all things common else. By thee adult'rous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason,...

...Revolution in 1777 -so captured American imagination as these lines from the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just and Pure Relations...

...own) anxiety, the narrator strenuously defends innocent "wedded love" against its sinful counterfeits: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of Human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range. . . . Here Love his golden shaft imploys, here lights...

...voyeurism, but only "weens" or supposes what happens. But he is perfectly straightforward in his praise of "wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety /in Paradise" (4.750-52). One reason many commentators thought that Adam and Eve fell on the day they were made (in...

...softness she, and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him. Now the invocation: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to rage, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father,...

...invocation to the combination of marriage and love in Book FV of Paradise Lost, as Adam and Eve copulate: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just, and Pure,...

...love': Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-elemental beam [. . .] Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...sole propriety In paradise of all things common else [...] (Ill, 1.2 and IV, 1.750; Fowler, 1968, pp.141 and 240) But why is imagination recognized here?...

...creation. Their sexual partnership is the singular instance of productive private property in the poem: "mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring,...propriety / In Paradise of all things common else" (4.750-2). Such "sole propriety" is implicitly constructed as a mutual ownership which may be perfectly...

...(1806-1873) British philosopher, economist. The Subjection of Women, ch. 4 (1 869). See Mill on 22 Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human...sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 4, 1.750-2 (1674). Repr. in Paradise Lost,...

...spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. 7601 Paradise Lost Pinafore And so do his sisters, and his cousins and...sisters and his cousins, live. Whom he reckons up by 7602 Paradise Lost Sleep on Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to...