Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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Page 91
... accept , as Empson does for the whole epic , Satan's motive for rebellion as a vague " sense of injur'd merit " ( I , 98 ) . Only later in Book V are we given his arguments for rebellion as they were first presented . Yet the whole ...
... accept , as Empson does for the whole epic , Satan's motive for rebellion as a vague " sense of injur'd merit " ( I , 98 ) . Only later in Book V are we given his arguments for rebellion as they were first presented . Yet the whole ...
Page 152
... accept ? " But for Milton , this inclination and this acceptance were the only meaning of freedom ; and a just judgment its only preservation . Even if we come to accept God's punishment of sin as just , there remains another area in ...
... accept ? " But for Milton , this inclination and this acceptance were the only meaning of freedom ; and a just judgment its only preservation . Even if we come to accept God's punishment of sin as just , there remains another area in ...
Page 248
... accept thee to defend his cause , A Murderer , a Revolter , and a Robber . ( 1178-1180 ) The crimes Harapha names are classed in his mind as crimes against private persons ( murder and robbery ) and crimes against the state ( revolt ) ...
... accept thee to defend his cause , A Murderer , a Revolter , and a Robber . ( 1178-1180 ) The crimes Harapha names are classed in his mind as crimes against private persons ( murder and robbery ) and crimes against the state ( revolt ) ...
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