DR AIKIN in Ten Volumes .VOL.]. LONDON. PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HTRST, REES, ORME & BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW, PARADISE XI. 76 Paradise Regained. In Four Books. III. 161 17 JOHN MILTON, Continued. PARADISE LOST. Book IX. The Argument. Satan, having compassed the Earth, with medi tated guile returns, as a mist, by night into Paradise; enters into the serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to their labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alleging the danger, lest that enemy, of whom they were forewarned, should attempt her found alone: Eve, loth to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength; Adam at last yields : the serpent finds her alone; his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking ; with much flattery extolling Eve above all other Eve, wondering to hear the serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech, and such understanding, not till now; the ser creatures. VOL. IL |
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