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Page 187
... curse . For the reader , at least , these apparent " curses " are not entirely dis- guised . It is the last curse that troubles us : " dust thou art , and shall to dust return . " That death , too , is a blessing , is God's final secret ...
... curse . For the reader , at least , these apparent " curses " are not entirely dis- guised . It is the last curse that troubles us : " dust thou art , and shall to dust return . " That death , too , is a blessing , is God's final secret ...
Page 191
... curse easy to understand , since it conceals symbolic meanings behind apparently straightforward , concrete words " Serpent ” means “ Satan , ” “ bruise " means " defeat . " Not surpris- ingly , Satan misunderstands the curse , and we ...
... curse easy to understand , since it conceals symbolic meanings behind apparently straightforward , concrete words " Serpent ” means “ Satan , ” “ bruise " means " defeat . " Not surpris- ingly , Satan misunderstands the curse , and we ...
Page 197
... curse . O voice once heard Delightfully , Increase and multiply , Now death to hear ! for what can I increase Or multiply , but curses on my head ? Who of all Ages to succeed , but feeling The evil on him brought by me , will curse My ...
... curse . O voice once heard Delightfully , Increase and multiply , Now death to hear ! for what can I increase Or multiply , but curses on my head ? Who of all Ages to succeed , but feeling The evil on him brought by me , will curse My ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton