John Milton, EnglishmanChrist among the doctors - Academic exercise - Pastoral interlude - Italian journey - Paradise sort - Deeds above heroic - Heavenly muse - Milton Agonistes - Fair dismission___ |
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Book IV Satan overleaps the bounds of Paradise , sits in the form of a cormorant on the Tree of Life , and , listening to the discourse of Adam and Eve , learns of the prohibition which has been placed on them as the test of their ...
Book IV Satan overleaps the bounds of Paradise , sits in the form of a cormorant on the Tree of Life , and , listening to the discourse of Adam and Eve , learns of the prohibition which has been placed on them as the test of their ...
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Such interpretation must center in the three protagonists of the drama of the fall : Satan , Adam , Eve . God is in the story as a kind of theory ; Christ is the foil of Satan and the instrument of his defeat .
Such interpretation must center in the three protagonists of the drama of the fall : Satan , Adam , Eve . God is in the story as a kind of theory ; Christ is the foil of Satan and the instrument of his defeat .
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It is impossible for Satan to rest in a delusion . This glorious army is after all nothing , for there is nothing for it to do . Its utility , henceforth , is that of an audience for Satan's own heroic deeds . His plan is already formed ...
It is impossible for Satan to rest in a delusion . This glorious army is after all nothing , for there is nothing for it to do . Its utility , henceforth , is that of an audience for Satan's own heroic deeds . His plan is already formed ...
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