Paradise Lost Author:Walter Stephens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY. ACT I. Scene 1. .. .. Hades. Scene II Pandemonium. (The Palace of Satan.) Scene III. .. .. The Gates of Hades. ACT II. Scene I... more ». .. .. Mount Niphates. Scene II The Garden of Eden. (The Dream.) ACT III. Scene I. .. .. The Garden of Eden. (The Temptation and Fall.) ACT IV. Scene I. .. .. Pandemonium. (The Palace of Satan.) Scene II The Garden of Eden. (The Banishment.) DRAMATIS PERSONS. MORTALS. Adam. Eve. IMMORTALS. Michael. Uzziel. Gabriel. -; Ith Uriel. Raphael. Zephon. Uriel. Attendant Spirits. PHANTOMS IN HADES. Satan. Moloch. Beelzebub. Chemos. Astarte (Queen of Heaven). Dagon. Thammiez. Belial. Rimmon. Sin (The Portress). Azazel (The Standard Bearer). Death (The Goblin). Phantom Vassals and Soldiers, Furies, etc. chapter{Section 4Paradise Lost. A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS. ACT I. SCENE I.?Hades. The rising of the Curtain discloses Satan and Beelzebub on a lake of liquid fire looking towards a darksome plain beyond, where are assembled and lying about in prostration the fallen spirits which have been driven with them out of Heaven after warring against the Almighty. Suddenly they are stirred by the distant rolling thunders and lightnings amid the darkness, and then the defiant voice of Satan is heard speaking to Beelzebub. Satan. Oh, fallen spirit! Oh, how changed From him who, in the happy realms of light, Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine Myriads though bright! If he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise, Joined with me once, now misery hath joined In equal ruin ; into what depths thou seest From what height fall'n; so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then...« less