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Page 41
... turn the Fable into English prose , and to adorn and amplifie it with fit Epithetes , choice Phrases , acute Sentences , wittie Apothegmes , livelie similitudes , apt examples , and Proverbial Speeches , all agreeing to the matter of ...
... turn the Fable into English prose , and to adorn and amplifie it with fit Epithetes , choice Phrases , acute Sentences , wittie Apothegmes , livelie similitudes , apt examples , and Proverbial Speeches , all agreeing to the matter of ...
Page 89
... turn from his reflection : The conditional " si tu dis- cedere possis " ( if you are able to leave ) indicates not an open pos- sibility , but a grim foreshadowing of his inability to escape . God's invitation , together with Eve's ...
... turn from his reflection : The conditional " si tu dis- cedere possis " ( if you are able to leave ) indicates not an open pos- sibility , but a grim foreshadowing of his inability to escape . God's invitation , together with Eve's ...
Page 105
... turn to her stage of narcissistic fascination with self - knowledge . At the same time Eve's imitation of Satan's argument that the fruit is good and should be known shows Eve regressing to the passive dependency of Ovid's Echo ...
... turn to her stage of narcissistic fascination with self - knowledge . At the same time Eve's imitation of Satan's argument that the fruit is good and should be known shows Eve regressing to the passive dependency of Ovid's Echo ...
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allegorical argument Baucis and Philemon beauty Book Cadmus Ceres Chapter characters Christian classical epic Comus counterheroic critics depiction described Deucalion devils dialogue with Ovid divine Echo English epic poet episode Eve's Faerie Queene Fall fallen angels Garden of Adonis genre Giraldi gods Heaven hero heroic heroism Homer human imitation John Milton Latin literary Martz masque Medea Meta Metamorphoses Milton and Ovid Milton's allusions Milton's epic Miltonic narrator moral morphoses Muse myth Narcissus narrative narrator's Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Ovid's fables Ovid's Metamorphoses Ovid's poem Ovidian Ovidian figures pagan Paradise Lost passage Poet of Exile poet's poetic poetry Pomona Proserpina Pyrrha Pythagoras reader reading Renaissance response revaluation rhetorical Satan scene Scylla sense serpent simile song speech Spenser spirit story structure style suggests Tasso Tereus thou tion tradition transformation verse Vertumnus Virgil Wittreich words