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... truth is that , both in prose and verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom ... Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what is shown with ...
... truth is that , both in prose and verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom ... Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what is shown with ...
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... truth lessens its immediate and personal force , and the sinner becomes complacent in a verbal and abstract contrition . Paradise Lost is immediate and forceful in the communication of these unflattering truths , again following the ...
... truth lessens its immediate and personal force , and the sinner becomes complacent in a verbal and abstract contrition . Paradise Lost is immediate and forceful in the communication of these unflattering truths , again following the ...
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... truth ? It was the truth that God would assume , not the form of the angels , but that of the seed of Abraham . He would be made man ; he would become the head of the angels . Thus , human nature would be exalted over angelic , for no ...
... truth ? It was the truth that God would assume , not the form of the angels , but that of the seed of Abraham . He would be made man ; he would become the head of the angels . Thus , human nature would be exalted over angelic , for no ...
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