In John Milton's epic Paradise Lost it is given a more fitting neighbour:

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Examples of hubris are often found in fiction, most famously in Paradise Lost, John Milton's depiction of the biblical Lucifer.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

The Romantics drew comparisons between Prometheus and the spirit of the French Revolution, Christ, the Satan of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the divinely inspired poet or artist.

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton's Paradise Lost c. 1866.

* Sabrina, a character in John Milton's Comus

The trilogy functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost ; with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing.

The title of the series, His Dark Materials, comes from seventeenth century poet John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2:

Printed by John Milton's publisher the book was an instant " best-seller ", and gave Williams a large and favorable reputation.

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

Some of the details of the creation of Narnia, such as the emergence of animals from the ground, and the way they shake earth from their bodies are also similar to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and may also have been inspired by descriptions of the processes of nature in The seventh book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

* In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Book 1 ), Satan is hurled " to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire ".

In John Milton's " Paradise Lost ," Peor is said to be the other name of the fallen angel Chemos, who " entic'd / Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile / To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

The massacre prompted John Milton's famous sonnet, " On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ".

In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer reciting his poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting ; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas to illustrate lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

John Milton's Comus ( with music by Henry Lawes ) is described as a masque, though it is generally reckoned a pastoral play.

* John Milton's sonnet " To the Nightingale " contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to ( or " cuckolded ") their husbands.

In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).

Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

The pamphlet on the Eucharist was also reprinted at Toulouse, in 1835, under the title of Quatre Lettres sur la Trans-substantiation, and appeared in an English translation, by John W. Hamersley, as the Chemical Change in the Eucharist, 1867.

* 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing.

Ashcraft and Goldsmith ( 1983 ) have traced in detail in the period 1689 to 1710 the major influence of the liberal political ideas of John Locke on Whig political values, as expressed in widely cited manifestos such as " Political Aphorisms: or, the True Maxims of Government Displayed ," an anonymous pamphlet that appeared in 1690 and was widely cited by Whigs.

He is also the presumed author of a pamphlet in prose entitled The Murder of John Brewen ( 1592 ), a grisly report on murder in a family, in which a goldsmith is murdered by his wife.

Newspaper proprietor John Gale circulated a pamphlet titled ' Dalgety or Canberra: Which?

Leading up to the passage of this law, in 1846, supporters issued a pamphlet, probably authored by Judge John Fine, which relied on its readers ' familiarity with the United States Declaration of Independence to demand " That all are created free and equal ...", and that this idea should apply equally to the sexes.

In 1564 he fell temporarily into the royal disfavour and was dismissed from court, because Elizabeth suspected he was concerned in the publication of a pamphlet, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperial of Ingland, by John Hales, which favoured the claim of Lady Catherine Grey ( sister of Lady Jane Grey ) to the English throne.

Fifty years earlier, at a time of civil war, John Milton wrote his pamphlet Areopagitica.

When the Army held the Putney Debates between 28 October and 11 November 1647, the debate centred upon a pamphlet influenced by the writings of John Lilburne called An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right.

It traces back to John Locke in late 17th century England and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, the latter especially via Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès pamphlet What Is the Third Estate ?.

In a pamphlet of " Remarks " ( 1742 ), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections ( 1744 – 1745 ) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton ( who had been his friend ), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other of his critics.

The matter was then pursued in a pamphlet war and Bentley brought an action against the publisher of the anonymous On the Present State of Trinity College ( 1719 ), which was the work of Middleton with John Colbatch.

* Braid, J., The Physiology of Fascination, and the Critics Criticised two-part pamphlet, John Murray, ( Manchester ), 1855.

After the case was dismissed on 5 December 1811 by Chief Justice John Marshall due to lack of jurisdiction, Jefferson nonetheless in 1812 completed and published a pamphlet originally intended “ for the use of counsel ” in the case against Livingston, to which Livingston published a reply.

Sixty thousand copies of this work were sold within a few days ; a cheap edition was soon issued which sold twice as many copies ; the pamphlet was extolled by one set of politicians and abused by another ; amongst its critics were Dr Markham, archbishop of York, John Wesley, and Edmund Burke ; and Price rapidly became one of the best known men in England.

The relationship with the Ebers family continued, and John published a pamphlet of Ainsworth's called Considerations on the best means of affording Immediate Relief to the Operative Classes in the Manufacturing Districts.

In a pamphlet written in 1930 called The Word of Wisdom, Apostle John A. Widtsoe taught that refined flour was contrary to the Word of Wisdom.

Dryden was obviously aimed at, and he co-operated with John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell in an abusive pamphlet entitled " Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco " ( 1674 ), to which Settle replied in " Some Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco revised " ( 1674 ).

The account was published as a pamphlet called " A History of the Detection, Conviction, Life And Designs of John A. Murel, The Great Western Land Pirate ; Together With his System of Villany and Plan of Exciting a Negro Rebellion, and a Catalogue of the Names of Four Hundred and Forty Five of His Mystic Clan Fellows and Followers and Their Efforts for the Destruction of Mr. Virgil A. Stewart, The Young Man Who Detected Him, To Which is Added Biographical Sketch of Mr. Virgil A.

The excitement created by the actions of John Wilkes led Horne into politics, and in 1765 he brought out a scathing pamphlet on Bute and Mansfield, entitled " The Petition of an Englishman ".