The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 95
... perfection . It is not only modern ideas of the equality of the sexes which may make this passage difficult for us ; the democratic assumption that ideally every individual should be self - sufficient and our tendency to define " perfection ...
... perfection . It is not only modern ideas of the equality of the sexes which may make this passage difficult for us ; the democratic assumption that ideally every individual should be self - sufficient and our tendency to define " perfection ...
Page 148
... perfection in order for us to imagine how perfection can be destroyed . As we read the poem with our hindsight and the reminders of God's foreknowledge , we can , if we are not careful , construct an image of inexorable necessity in the ...
... perfection in order for us to imagine how perfection can be destroyed . As we read the poem with our hindsight and the reminders of God's foreknowledge , we can , if we are not careful , construct an image of inexorable necessity in the ...
Page 149
... perfection of all the knowledge of which they are capable in their state ; and they are also endowed with the ability to doubt or distrust or forget their happiness and perfection , the ability to deny and to destroy it all . Such ...
... perfection of all the knowledge of which they are capable in their state ; and they are also endowed with the ability to doubt or distrust or forget their happiness and perfection , the ability to deny and to destroy it all . Such ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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