O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how... The State of Innocence and Fall of Man Described in Milton's Paradise Lost ... - Page 133by John Milton, Nicolas François DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR - 1745 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
| Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...procreation writhes with hateful envy at the memory of his own happily procreative state in Heaven: "I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell" (4.37-39). Satan lost this state because he abused his procreative powers. He confesses that... | |
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| Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
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| Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
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