The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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Page 113
... Adam the goodliest man of men since born His Sons , the fairest of her Daughters Eve . ( iv . 321-4 ) The syntax may be Greek , but the sense is English , and inclusive- ness could hardly be more completely presented ; Adam and Eve here ...
... Adam the goodliest man of men since born His Sons , the fairest of her Daughters Eve . ( iv . 321-4 ) The syntax may be Greek , but the sense is English , and inclusive- ness could hardly be more completely presented ; Adam and Eve here ...
Page 118
... Adam , enormously ignorant and foolishly cunning , ' with Countnance blithe .... But in her Cheek distemper flushing ... Adam's welcoming garland . He sees that Eve is lost , ' Defac't , deflowrd , and now to Death devote ' ( 901 ) . He ...
... Adam , enormously ignorant and foolishly cunning , ' with Countnance blithe .... But in her Cheek distemper flushing ... Adam's welcoming garland . He sees that Eve is lost , ' Defac't , deflowrd , and now to Death devote ' ( 901 ) . He ...
Page 120
... Adam's in xi . 158 ff . , which I have already discussed in connection with v . 385 ff . ( see p . 90 above ) . Here Adam sees that Eve is responsible not only for death but for the victory over it ; as she herself says , ' I who first ...
... Adam's in xi . 158 ff . , which I have already discussed in connection with v . 385 ff . ( see p . 90 above ) . Here Adam sees that Eve is responsible not only for death but for the victory over it ; as she herself says , ' I who first ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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