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... God's service ; what is left to any agent is a choice between service freely rendered and service exacted against his will . Satan continually deludes himself by supposing that he can act apart from God , and in this passage we come to ...
... God's service ; what is left to any agent is a choice between service freely rendered and service exacted against his will . Satan continually deludes himself by supposing that he can act apart from God , and in this passage we come to ...
Page 194
... God's point of view always dominates : it is through God's eyes that we first meet Adam and Eve ; only later do we see them from Satan's point of disadvantage . 18 Just as Satan has not God's perspective of space , he has not God's ...
... God's point of view always dominates : it is through God's eyes that we first meet Adam and Eve ; only later do we see them from Satan's point of disadvantage . 18 Just as Satan has not God's perspective of space , he has not God's ...
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... God ' , but by a clever use of the phrase which accompanied the fruit's interdiction - ' Ye shall be as Gods ' – he shifts to ' the Gods ' , not in the usual Miltonic sense of angelic beings , but meaning a plurality of deities : - The Gods ...
... God ' , but by a clever use of the phrase which accompanied the fruit's interdiction - ' Ye shall be as Gods ' – he shifts to ' the Gods ' , not in the usual Miltonic sense of angelic beings , but meaning a plurality of deities : - The Gods ...
Contents
Acknowledgements 791 | 7 |
Chronology | 27 |
ARTHUR BARKER The Pattern of Miltons Nativity | 44 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid anadiplosis angels antimetabole antistrophe beauty beginning Book xi C. S. Lewis century Christ Christian creation creature critics death divine doctrine Donne dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard Earth effect English epanalepsis epic voice epizeuxis eternity Eve's evil experience fall fallen fame glory God's hath Heaven Hell heroic human Il Penseroso incarnation John Milton knowledge L'Allegro less liberty lines literary Lucifer Lycidas marriage means melancholy Michael Milton mind moral motivation narrative nature Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paradox passage Penseroso perhaps phrase pleasures ploce poem poem's poet poetic poetry praise prose Puritan Raphael reader reading reason Renaissance rhetoric romantic Samson Agonistes Satan Satan's rebellion seems sense seventeenth seventeenth-century significance simile soul speech spirit suggested temptation thee theme things thir thou thought Tillyard tion tradition traductio true truth verse Waldock wisdom words write