Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major Origins, with a Discussion of Milton's Use of Sources and Literary PatternsPackard, 1940 - 362 pages |
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... held up as a foe of matrimony , in part because he desired both to increase license and to dimin- ish population . To those who believed God created man in part to replenish the loss occasioned by the revolt of the fallen angels , it ...
... held up as a foe of matrimony , in part because he desired both to increase license and to dimin- ish population . To those who believed God created man in part to replenish the loss occasioned by the revolt of the fallen angels , it ...
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... held that Cain strangled Abel ; another , that he killed him with a stone . The Protestant commentator Mercer declared some writers held that Cain used a stone ; others , one among different weapons ; and concluded there are a thousand ...
... held that Cain strangled Abel ; another , that he killed him with a stone . The Protestant commentator Mercer declared some writers held that Cain used a stone ; others , one among different weapons ; and concluded there are a thousand ...
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... held with Aristotle and theologi nostri that the world is one and finite . English attacks upon the Copernican hypothesis were not confined to the strictures of astronomers and mathematic- ians . The statesman Thomas Overbury held that ...
... held with Aristotle and theologi nostri that the world is one and finite . English attacks upon the Copernican hypothesis were not confined to the strictures of astronomers and mathematic- ians . The statesman Thomas Overbury held that ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam Unparadised Adam's Amara analogue angels Apostate appeared astronomy Bartas Bartian battle in heaven belief Biblical Book VIII Caedmon catalog Chaldea chapter chorus Christ Christian conception created creatures day of Creation Death declared Deity described Devil dialogue Discourse discussed Divine Weeks doctrine draft Du Bartas earth employed English epic episodes evil Exaltation fall Father Fletcher followed fruit Gabriel Garden Genesis God's hath heavenly hell hexameral literature hexameral tradition Hexameron host idea included interpretation King Lactantius later literary London Lord Lucifer major Michael Milton moon Moses Bar Cepha Paradise Lost paraphrase passages perhaps Peter Lombard Phineas Fletcher Planet poem poet poet's poetry praise Raphael rebellion Ross Satan Scripture serpent Seventeenth Century Spenser spirits stars stood subsequent suggested thee themes theologians things thou thought tion Tostatus tragedy tree Uriel Valmarana Valvasone verses Vondel Wilkins Willet words writers wrote