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... pattern of growth , death , and renewal . We feel at the conclusion the completion of this pattern ; and our satisfaction is an aesthetic feeling , not a religious one . That we are meant to accept the immortality of Lycidas as part of ...
... pattern of growth , death , and renewal . We feel at the conclusion the completion of this pattern ; and our satisfaction is an aesthetic feeling , not a religious one . That we are meant to accept the immortality of Lycidas as part of ...
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... pattern that is being described here , the fact that the Fall can bring about a greater happiness , is not a paradox but a part of the natural development of this pattern . The greater good that is revealed to Adam at the end of the ...
... pattern that is being described here , the fact that the Fall can bring about a greater happiness , is not a paradox but a part of the natural development of this pattern . The greater good that is revealed to Adam at the end of the ...
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... pattern of the entire poem , we are beginning to move towards a justification , in purely human terms , of God's mysterious ways . We do so be- cause the paradox - that even the noblest impulses can lead to sin — can be reversed . If ...
... pattern of the entire poem , we are beginning to move towards a justification , in purely human terms , of God's mysterious ways . We do so be- cause the paradox - that even the noblest impulses can lead to sin — can be reversed . If ...
Contents
Miltons Beliefs and Contextualist Criticism | 3 |
The Nativity Ode and the Pagan Deities | 10 |
Lycidas and the Problem of Belief | 21 |
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