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... Cain , but the profusion of influ- ences reinforces the impression that he was hardly concerned to con- duct a rigorous investigation in theology.1 To approach the drama , as did its first shocked readers , as literally an essay in ...
... Cain , but the profusion of influ- ences reinforces the impression that he was hardly concerned to con- duct a rigorous investigation in theology.1 To approach the drama , as did its first shocked readers , as literally an essay in ...
Page 150
... Cain's , and that unfulfilled expectation points to a central feature of the drama . The meaning of Cain is larger than can be articulated by any of the imperfect dramatis personae : only the reader is in a posi- tion to comprehend the ...
... Cain's , and that unfulfilled expectation points to a central feature of the drama . The meaning of Cain is larger than can be articulated by any of the imperfect dramatis personae : only the reader is in a posi- tion to comprehend the ...
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... Cain's " exemption " ( the word is Byron's ) is a miracle of divine grace , and in Cain's departure with his wife and son Byron gestures toward the forever unrealized hope that , granted so signal an indulgence , man will rise above ...
... Cain's " exemption " ( the word is Byron's ) is a miracle of divine grace , and in Cain's departure with his wife and son Byron gestures toward the forever unrealized hope that , granted so signal an indulgence , man will rise above ...
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