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... faith in Milton similar to the poet's faith in God : Whatever happens to us , it will be for our own ultimate good . Faith , in Paradise Lost , is surely the evidence of things not seen ; and our faith in Milton's poem is sorely tested ...
... faith in Milton similar to the poet's faith in God : Whatever happens to us , it will be for our own ultimate good . Faith , in Paradise Lost , is surely the evidence of things not seen ; and our faith in Milton's poem is sorely tested ...
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... faith that God will not leave mankind in such a wretched state . Though Adam's response to the Nimrod - Babel passage is not a par- ticularly fresh or illuminating one , it does give us an example of what a spiritually regenerate reader ...
... faith that God will not leave mankind in such a wretched state . Though Adam's response to the Nimrod - Babel passage is not a par- ticularly fresh or illuminating one , it does give us an example of what a spiritually regenerate reader ...
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... faith must play . In his joy he sees at last ( and helps us to see ) that the Fall , Original Sin , despite all of its ghastly and tragic effects , is itself a paradox , a happy fault : O goodness infinite , goodness immense ! That all ...
... faith must play . In his joy he sees at last ( and helps us to see ) that the Fall , Original Sin , despite all of its ghastly and tragic effects , is itself a paradox , a happy fault : O goodness infinite , goodness immense ! That all ...
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