The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 22
... attempt to write Paradise Lost was , therefore , " bad form ” from the modern gentlemanly point of view . Milton knew , I believe , how shocking the opening lines might prove even to a seventeenth - century reader - if he did not read ...
... attempt to write Paradise Lost was , therefore , " bad form ” from the modern gentlemanly point of view . Milton knew , I believe , how shocking the opening lines might prove even to a seventeenth - century reader - if he did not read ...
Page 104
... attempt to reduce Eve's sin simply to the violation of her love for Adam , any more than we should attempt to reduce it to any one , easily classifiable sin . As Milton remarked in The Christian Doctrine ( Book I , Chap . xi ) , " what ...
... attempt to reduce Eve's sin simply to the violation of her love for Adam , any more than we should attempt to reduce it to any one , easily classifiable sin . As Milton remarked in The Christian Doctrine ( Book I , Chap . xi ) , " what ...
Page 157
... attempts to judge the hidden and concealed , Eve went forth among her Fruits and Flow'rs , To visit how they prosper ... attempt to " scan " God's secrets , but " who ought / Rather admire ” ( 74-75 ) . The two meanings of “ admire ” are ...
... attempts to judge the hidden and concealed , Eve went forth among her Fruits and Flow'rs , To visit how they prosper ... attempt to " scan " God's secrets , but " who ought / Rather admire ” ( 74-75 ) . The two meanings of “ admire ” are ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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