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... gives something ( the imitation of classical epic ) in order to take it away ( denial of the truth of epic conventions ) and finally promises to give something better - not an idle tale to kill time , but a saving Truth to redeem time ...
... gives something ( the imitation of classical epic ) in order to take it away ( denial of the truth of epic conventions ) and finally promises to give something better - not an idle tale to kill time , but a saving Truth to redeem time ...
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... give " despair " its full Christian weight , the mes- sage is at best ambiguous , since the narrator himself continually endorses the epic context , as when he follows the two lines quoted above with a final " And him thus answer'd soon ...
... give " despair " its full Christian weight , the mes- sage is at best ambiguous , since the narrator himself continually endorses the epic context , as when he follows the two lines quoted above with a final " And him thus answer'd soon ...
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... give some power to his creatures ( even the power to make up their own minds ) is to take some away from God , which renders him no longer omnipotent . But of course like any moral system Christianity rests upon free will , since it ...
... give some power to his creatures ( even the power to make up their own minds ) is to take some away from God , which renders him no longer omnipotent . But of course like any moral system Christianity rests upon free will , since it ...
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