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... Satan . S. R. Driver in his standard commentary on Genesis has written : " The view of the high intellectual capacities of our first parents has been familiarized to many by the great poem of Milton , who represents Adam and Eve as ...
... Satan . S. R. Driver in his standard commentary on Genesis has written : " The view of the high intellectual capacities of our first parents has been familiarized to many by the great poem of Milton , who represents Adam and Eve as ...
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... Satan's angered contempt for " This Man of Clay " who " us the more to spite his Maker rais'd / from dust " ( IX , 176-78 ) . And after the Fall , Adam reminds Eve " that we are dust , / And thither must return and be no more " ( XI ...
... Satan's angered contempt for " This Man of Clay " who " us the more to spite his Maker rais'd / from dust " ( IX , 176-78 ) . And after the Fall , Adam reminds Eve " that we are dust , / And thither must return and be no more " ( XI ...
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Contents
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3 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA | 38 |
4 THE MIDDLE AGES | 67 |
5 THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE | 89 |
6 THE LEGACY OF EDEN | 125 |
7 THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE | 188 |
8 THE NATURAL PARADISE THE CELESTIAL PARADISE AND THE INNER PARADISE | 234 |
9 THE FADING OF PARADISE | 269 |
NOTES | 291 |
INDEX | 319 |
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