(Abrahamic, _, religions) A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
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Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:
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c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
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Up into Heav’n from Paradise in hastTh’ Angelic Guards ascended,
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1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 17-18:
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Government like dress is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
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1776, Thomas Paine, Common Sense[1], Philadelphia, page 1:
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If all was good and fair we met,This earth had been the ParadiseIt never look’d to human eyesSince Adam left his garden yet.
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1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIV, page 41:
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I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
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1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: