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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

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The Musicality of Milton's Passage, and the Musicality and Siloah's Brook That Flowed Fast by the Oracle of God

Listen to this, sing heavenly muse that on the secret top of Orib, Or of Sinai, did inspire that shepherd who first taught the chosen seed and look at the inversion. parts of the biblical tradition foreshadowing, till one greater man restore us, who is that greater man? He's talking to the spirit, I vent, invoke thy aid to my adventurous song that with no middle flight intends to soar above the Ionian mount while it pursues things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Here's a really beautiful image, and I want you to appreciate this and return to it over and over again, it's one of my favourite images in a very long epic

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