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... human weakness , not self- engendered depravity . It was a major stroke of irony for Milton to withhold his picture of idyllic paradise and its idyllic inhabitants until we accompany Satan into the garden and see its pastoral and human ...
... human weakness , not self- engendered depravity . It was a major stroke of irony for Milton to withhold his picture of idyllic paradise and its idyllic inhabitants until we accompany Satan into the garden and see its pastoral and human ...
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... human level , as figures in a divinely harmonious order . Now aesthetic distance gives place to close - up drama ( such as no earlier epic had developed ) and the cere- mony of innocence to realistic feelings and speech- though we are ...
... human level , as figures in a divinely harmonious order . Now aesthetic distance gives place to close - up drama ( such as no earlier epic had developed ) and the cere- mony of innocence to realistic feelings and speech- though we are ...
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... human creatures , aided by grace , are now engen- dering a force of good that can stand against evil . Book nine had ended with quarreling ; book ten ends with the poetry - it is poetry - of " hearts contrite . " Feeling happier , Adam ...
... human creatures , aided by grace , are now engen- dering a force of good that can stand against evil . Book nine had ended with quarreling ; book ten ends with the poetry - it is poetry - of " hearts contrite . " Feeling happier , Adam ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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