Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton |
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... Paradise Lost . He evades no issues , shirks no difficulties , and so has presented arguments and counter - argu- ments for and against his God , his Satan , his Adam , and his Eve . Thus the individual reader remains free to decide ...
... Paradise Lost . He evades no issues , shirks no difficulties , and so has presented arguments and counter - argu- ments for and against his God , his Satan , his Adam , and his Eve . Thus the individual reader remains free to decide ...
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... Paradise offered to Adam , a paradise which must be earned , is bound to be ' happier far ' than the one which was simply given , and , in the long run , well lost . Eternal life in the garden of innocence might have made man happy had ...
... Paradise offered to Adam , a paradise which must be earned , is bound to be ' happier far ' than the one which was simply given , and , in the long run , well lost . Eternal life in the garden of innocence might have made man happy had ...
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... ( Paradise Lost , IX . 679–87 ) Convinced of its virtues by Satan , Eve echoes his hymn to the tree : O Sovran , virtuous , precious of all Trees In Paradise , of operation blest To Sapience , hitherto obscur'd , infam'd , And thy fair ...
... ( Paradise Lost , IX . 679–87 ) Convinced of its virtues by Satan , Eve echoes his hymn to the tree : O Sovran , virtuous , precious of all Trees In Paradise , of operation blest To Sapience , hitherto obscur'd , infam'd , And thy fair ...
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