![]() ![]() Still threatening to devour me opens wide, ![]() Nay, cursed be thou since against his thy willĬhose freely what it now so justly rues. Wikimedia Commons.īe then his love accursed, since, love or hate, Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Me Miserable! Which Way Shall I Fly Infinite Wrath, and Infinite Despair? (Book 4, 73-74) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. In the third book: comes to the gate of Heaven, described ascending by stairs, and the waters above the firmament that flow about it: his passage thence to the orb of the sun he finds there Uriel the regent of that orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner angel and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new creation, and Man whom God had placed here, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed alights first on mount Niphates. ![]()
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