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Page 190
... eternity and time . Eternity was one of God's attributes and a condition of perfection , of which in art and poetry the circle was commonly the emblem.5 God has existed from eternity . He has neither beginning nor end ; even in his name ...
... eternity and time . Eternity was one of God's attributes and a condition of perfection , of which in art and poetry the circle was commonly the emblem.5 God has existed from eternity . He has neither beginning nor end ; even in his name ...
Page 191
... Eternity and Time , as the Cause of all Time and Eternity and as the Ancient of Days ; as before Time and above Time and producing all the variety of times and seasons ; and again , as existing before Eternal Ages , in that He is before ...
... Eternity and Time , as the Cause of all Time and Eternity and as the Ancient of Days ; as before Time and above Time and producing all the variety of times and seasons ; and again , as existing before Eternal Ages , in that He is before ...
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... eternity ) . In this sense one article of the doctrine Milton intended to teach his nation , the inexplicable theological paradoxes of time and eternity , of free will and foreknowledge , is exemplified in the poem's action and ...
... eternity ) . In this sense one article of the doctrine Milton intended to teach his nation , the inexplicable theological paradoxes of time and eternity , of free will and foreknowledge , is exemplified in the poem's action and ...
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