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Page 177
... Adam's words ring so true that they prove to us his feelings , and against proof of that kind no comment can or ought to prevail . ... Adam falls through love ... , through love as human beings know it at its best , through true love ...
... Adam's words ring so true that they prove to us his feelings , and against proof of that kind no comment can or ought to prevail . ... Adam falls through love ... , through love as human beings know it at its best , through true love ...
Page 178
... Adam : he has kept control and brought us to his own foreseen conclusion . Of course Adam's words ' prove to us his feelings ' ; but Waldock assumes that they prove more , that they prove Adam to be in the right . This is a pathetic ...
... Adam : he has kept control and brought us to his own foreseen conclusion . Of course Adam's words ' prove to us his feelings ' ; but Waldock assumes that they prove more , that they prove Adam to be in the right . This is a pathetic ...
Page 185
... Adam's sub- mission may to some appear less heroic than Satan's defiance of his doom ; but for Milton it is not less but more heroic , ' the better fortitude of patience ' . Adam is still self - centred , preoccupied with his own misery ...
... Adam's sub- mission may to some appear less heroic than Satan's defiance of his doom ; but for Milton it is not less but more heroic , ' the better fortitude of patience ' . Adam is still self - centred , preoccupied with his own misery ...
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accepted action Adam and Eve Adam's angels appear argument become beginning better Book called century character comes common course created creation criticism Death describing doctrine Earth effect English epic evil example expressed fact Fall Father feel figure follows fruit God's hand Heaven Hell heroic human ideas images imagination knowledge language Latin less light lines live look means MICHIGAN Milton mind narrative nature never once opening original Paradise Lost passage peace person picture poem poet poetic poetry presented question reader reason relation represent Satan says scene seen sense sight simile stand story style tells thee things thir thou thought tion told true truth UNIVERSITY verse whole wind write