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... speech con- cludes in the mordant , and bitterly ironic , resolution that “ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe . " By the end of the speech , Eve has undergone a metamorphosis as certain as any in Ovid's poem , one reflected not ...
... speech con- cludes in the mordant , and bitterly ironic , resolution that “ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe . " By the end of the speech , Eve has undergone a metamorphosis as certain as any in Ovid's poem , one reflected not ...
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... speech.33 Satan's flattering description of himself and the other devils as " gods " has a similar effect . The rhetorical suspension of caelestes ( divinities ) until the beginning of the following line is an Ovidian finesse that ...
... speech.33 Satan's flattering description of himself and the other devils as " gods " has a similar effect . The rhetorical suspension of caelestes ( divinities ) until the beginning of the following line is an Ovidian finesse that ...
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... speech of Pythagoras ( 15.60-481 ) . The tedious strength of the speech has led some to find it almost thoroughly ironic.54 Cer- tainly , as I have argued , the speech delivers a warning of the eventual fall of the Roman empire ...
... speech of Pythagoras ( 15.60-481 ) . The tedious strength of the speech has led some to find it almost thoroughly ironic.54 Cer- tainly , as I have argued , the speech delivers a warning of the eventual fall of the Roman empire ...
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