The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 38
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the rebellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the rebellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
Page 71
... passage of relaxed intensity : There is a Cave Within the Mount of God , fast by his Throne , Where light and darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns , which makes through Heav'n Grateful vicissitude , like Day and Night ...
... passage of relaxed intensity : There is a Cave Within the Mount of God , fast by his Throne , Where light and darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns , which makes through Heav'n Grateful vicissitude , like Day and Night ...
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... passage is central to the movement of the poem . What we have here , as E. M. W. Tillyard has suggested , is a gracious foreshadowing of the human motions of sin , repentance , for- giveness , reconciliation in love , and continued life ...
... passage is central to the movement of the poem . What we have here , as E. M. W. Tillyard has suggested , is a gracious foreshadowing of the human motions of sin , repentance , for- giveness , reconciliation in love , and continued life ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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