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... Adam says after the Fall : Ah , why should all mankind For one mans fault thus guiltless be condemn'd , If guiltless ... Adam's disobedience , all his descendants must be depraved in mind and will . The nature of this necessity remains ...
... Adam says after the Fall : Ah , why should all mankind For one mans fault thus guiltless be condemn'd , If guiltless ... Adam's disobedience , all his descendants must be depraved in mind and will . The nature of this necessity remains ...
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... Adam's response seems worthy of our admiration . Or is it ? Is it perhaps a kind of selfishness ? He cannot bear to live without Eve , he loves her so , and therefore he is determin- ed to join in whatever fate God visits on her . But ...
... Adam's response seems worthy of our admiration . Or is it ? Is it perhaps a kind of selfishness ? He cannot bear to live without Eve , he loves her so , and therefore he is determin- ed to join in whatever fate God visits on her . But ...
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... Adam , replies in a speech ( beginning ' For- sake me not thus , Adam ' , Book X , lines 914 ff . ) which in its beautiful modulations of tone , its simple humility , its gentle appeal for support and understanding , its quiet and un ...
... Adam , replies in a speech ( beginning ' For- sake me not thus , Adam ' , Book X , lines 914 ff . ) which in its beautiful modulations of tone , its simple humility , its gentle appeal for support and understanding , its quiet and un ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir Eliphaz English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Melencolia Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words