As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

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In the invocation to Book Nine of Paradise Lost, Milton describes and it's wonderful to see this representation of this process that, I think, we've been wondering about he describes the process by which the heavenly muse inspires, and he says inspires nightly, the composition of his epic.

在《失乐园》第九卷中，弥尔顿描绘了,看到弥尔顿对这一过程的描述很是奇妙，我们都对这一过程很好奇,弥尔顿描绘了天神缪斯启示他，他说是在晚上启示的，启示他写作史诗的过程。

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