 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...alarms ; for thoughts are only criminal when they are first chosen and then voluntarily continued. " Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or stain behind."* In futurity chiefly are the snares lodged by which... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...tells him he must not hope. — Loose thoughts may arise, but they are rebuked and dissipated — " Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or blame behind." Gentlemen, I trouble you with these reflections,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...115 " Of our last ev'ning's talk, in this thy dream, " But with addition strange ; yet he not sad. " Evil into the mind of God, or man, " May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave " No spot or hlame hehind : which gives me hope 120 " That what in sleep thou... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...methinks, I find Of our last evening's talk, in this tin dream, But with addition strange : yet be not sad. hese so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or blame behind : which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst... | |
 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 367 pages
...genuinely feels evil impulses, it is a sure sign that she will give in to them. Milton's idea that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame behind . . ." (Paradise Lost 5.11719) has no place in the... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...comes testimony that he, like God, could have read unlicensed heresy in Eden without loss of innocence: "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot of blame behind" (4.117-19). "Evil," in a narrowly cognitive sense... | |
 | Brian Caraher - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 226 pages
...about beings other than himself does not compel him to create them at some time. When Adam says that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go" (V.117-19), he is particularizing the more general postulate of the freedom of the intellect to think... | |
 | Andrew V. Ettin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 236 pages
...may be truer of articulated speech than of thought, although obviously the separation cannot be neat. "Evil into the mind of God or man / May come and go, so unapproved,"14 Milton's Adam reassures Eve after a troubling dream. Bringing that evil forth from... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...times. Milton gave Satan and the fallen deities some of his favorite positions and even allowed that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame" (Paradise Lost V 11719). Of course, Milton's is a definite... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - 1997 - 388 pages
...latter is prone to produce dreams, but Eve, Adam says, need not be disturbed by her strange dream. "Evil into the mind of god or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind; which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst... | |
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