 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 367 pages
...genuinely feels evil impulses, it is a sure sign that she will give in to them. Milton's idea that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame behind . . ." (Paradise Lost 5.11719) has no place in the... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...comes testimony that he, like God, could have read unlicensed heresy in Eden without loss of innocence: "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot of blame behind" (4.117-19). "Evil," in a narrowly cognitive sense... | |
 | Celia Florén - 1992 - 624 pages
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 | Brian Caraher - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 226 pages
...about beings other than himself does not compel him to create them at some time. When Adam says that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go" (V.117-19), he is particularizing the more general postulate of the freedom of the intellect to think... | |
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Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind... 
