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Page 36
... give up his heroic ambitions and simply accept a lesser stature in a lesser age unless he was willing also to give up a large degree of his significant freedom . Although the prophets of collective degeneration and doom might well be ...
... give up his heroic ambitions and simply accept a lesser stature in a lesser age unless he was willing also to give up a large degree of his significant freedom . Although the prophets of collective degeneration and doom might well be ...
Page 73
... give minute descriptions of natural scenes and natural objects , but to give precise descriptions , precise exemplifica- tions , precise evocations of the pleasures appropriate to two contrasted moods . His outlines , the directions he ...
... give minute descriptions of natural scenes and natural objects , but to give precise descriptions , precise exemplifica- tions , precise evocations of the pleasures appropriate to two contrasted moods . His outlines , the directions he ...
Page 104
... give his audience a basis for moral action ; but I do not think the third has been accepted in the way that I intend ... give Milton much scope to express what he really feels about life : but Satan is there , Satan gives him scope . And ...
... give his audience a basis for moral action ; but I do not think the third has been accepted in the way that I intend ... give Milton much scope to express what he really feels about life : but Satan is there , Satan gives him scope . And ...
Contents
Acknowledgements 791 | 7 |
Chronology | 27 |
ARTHUR BARKER The Pattern of Miltons Nativity | 44 |
Copyright | |
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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