I'm guessing that Paradise Lost [0] isn't standard reading for HN'ers, but I have to say that when I read it for an exam when I was 17, I loved it (compared with the Shakespeare that was also on the syllabus). The article reminded me why:
Lucifer being cast out of heaven...
Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire...
On seeing Eve for the first time:
That space the Evil One abstracted stood
From his own evil, and for the time remained
Stupidly good of enmity disarmed,
Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge,
But the hot Hell that always in him burns...
Superbly visual writing, for a book published in 1667.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
Lucifer being cast out of heaven...
On seeing Eve for the first time: Superbly visual writing, for a book published in 1667.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost