JOHN MILTON. Born 1608. Died 1674. SOLILOQUY OF SATAN, S this the region, this the soil, the clime, Said then the lost archangel, this the seat, That we must change for heaven? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he, Who now is Sovran, can dispose and bid What shall be right; farthest from him is best, Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields, But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Paradise Lost, Book I. SATAN. E scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend HE Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Hath vext the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew |