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Page 55
... argues that Day is more excellent than Night . Assuming a negative position need not condemn a speaker , as the case of the pensive man shows . Whereas this present speech reflects the perverse , night - loving psychology of Comus ...
... argues that Day is more excellent than Night . Assuming a negative position need not condemn a speaker , as the case of the pensive man shows . Whereas this present speech reflects the perverse , night - loving psychology of Comus ...
Page 77
... argues that " Milton's method is to re - create in the mind of the reader ( which is , finally , the poem's scene ) the drama of the Fall , to make him fall again as Adam did and with Adam's troubled clarity , that is to say , ' not ...
... argues that " Milton's method is to re - create in the mind of the reader ( which is , finally , the poem's scene ) the drama of the Fall , to make him fall again as Adam did and with Adam's troubled clarity , that is to say , ' not ...
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... argues on the whole for principles consistent with what Ovid has been at pains to depict throughout the Metamorphoses . The central theme of the speech is stated lacon- ically : “ omnia mutantur , nihil interit ” ( all things change ...
... argues on the whole for principles consistent with what Ovid has been at pains to depict throughout the Metamorphoses . The central theme of the speech is stated lacon- ically : “ omnia mutantur , nihil interit ” ( all things change ...
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