The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 109
... seems this Vision , and more hope Of peaceful days portends , than those two past ; Those were of hate and death , or pain much worse , Here Nature seems fulfill'd in all her ends . ( XI . 598-602 ) Adam sees nothing sinister in the ...
... seems this Vision , and more hope Of peaceful days portends , than those two past ; Those were of hate and death , or pain much worse , Here Nature seems fulfill'd in all her ends . ( XI . 598-602 ) Adam sees nothing sinister in the ...
Page 153
... seems at first very far from the innocent and almost comic anxiety which Adam expresses at the opening of Book VIII ; and , in a way , it is , for Adam has not yet sinned . When Adam presents his " something yet of doubt " which “ only ...
... seems at first very far from the innocent and almost comic anxiety which Adam expresses at the opening of Book VIII ; and , in a way , it is , for Adam has not yet sinned . When Adam presents his " something yet of doubt " which “ only ...
Page 165
... Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded , Wisdom in ... seems " : he knows that what he is describing does not correspond with reality ; his emotion is " against his better ...
... Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded , Wisdom in ... seems " : he knows that what he is describing does not correspond with reality ; his emotion is " against his better ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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