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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Page 178
... 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 obedience ...
... 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 obedience ...
Page 182
... 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 . The angels , good and bad , are minor vehicles of Miltonic personality and idea . The obvious judgment that Satan ...
... 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 . The angels , good and bad , are minor vehicles of Miltonic personality and idea . The obvious judgment that Satan ...
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... 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 when he summons the ...
... 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 when he summons the ...
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