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... human psychology which Adam had tried to explain to Eve , but carries it a step fur- ther : flowers and their fruit , Man's nourishment , by gradual scale sublimed , To vital spirits aspire , to animal , To intellectual , give both life ...
... human psychology which Adam had tried to explain to Eve , but carries it a step fur- ther : flowers and their fruit , Man's nourishment , by gradual scale sublimed , To vital spirits aspire , to animal , To intellectual , give both life ...
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... human limitations , man cannot fully understand Heaven or angelic nature , and therefore what surmounts the reach Of human sense , I shall delineate so , By likening spiritual to corporeal forms As may express them best . ( V. 571-74 ) ...
... human limitations , man cannot fully understand Heaven or angelic nature , and therefore what surmounts the reach Of human sense , I shall delineate so , By likening spiritual to corporeal forms As may express them best . ( V. 571-74 ) ...
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... human being on a par with ourselves , subject to the frailties familiar to us . Tem- perate though he may have been in all appetites except the sexual , he differs from other human beings only in his gigantic size and strength . Those ...
... human being on a par with ourselves , subject to the frailties familiar to us . Tem- perate though he may have been in all appetites except the sexual , he differs from other human beings only in his gigantic size and strength . Those ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid appear Areopagitica basic begins Belial Biblical blind Book called Cambridge Chorus Christ Christian Church classical climax Comus Creation critics Dalilah dark death deliberately Diodati drama earth echoes Edward Phillips elegy English epic Eve's eyes fallen angels familiar father feel Genesis God's Greek hear Heaven Hell Horton Il Penseroso implied Italian John Milton King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes learned light lines living Lord Ludlow Castle Lycidas masque Milton wrote mind modern Moloch mood Muse Nativity Ode Nature pagan Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paraphrase particularly passage Penseroso phrase Pindar poem poet poetry Prologue Psalms Puritan Raphael reader Reason Renaissance rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan says scene seems sestet shepherd sing song sonnet sound speech Spenser Spirit stanza style suggested temptation thee theme thou Tillyard tion tradition verse word write written young youth