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... fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; In darkness , and with dangers compassed round , And solitude . . . It seems a reasonable assumption , though some scholars would disagree , that Milton composed the ...
... fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; In darkness , and with dangers compassed round , And solitude . . . It seems a reasonable assumption , though some scholars would disagree , that Milton composed the ...
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... fall begins in Eve's first speech ( IV . 440 f . ) , her story of her first experience of being alive . Seeing her ... falling . The angel Raphael is sent from heaven ( as Virgil had Mercury sent to Dido ) to instruct Adam and Eve and ...
... fall begins in Eve's first speech ( IV . 440 f . ) , her story of her first experience of being alive . Seeing her ... falling . The angel Raphael is sent from heaven ( as Virgil had Mercury sent to Dido ) to instruct Adam and Eve and ...
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... fall'n state , content , " but the angel Michael comes to tell them they must leave the paradise they have forfeited . Their reactions are typical : Eve is the housewife who must abandon her home , Adam is afflicted in being hidden from ...
... fall'n state , content , " but the angel Michael comes to tell them they must leave the paradise they have forfeited . Their reactions are typical : Eve is the housewife who must abandon her home , Adam is afflicted in being hidden from ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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