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... human experience . Milton went further than that . In his post- humously published Latin work on Christian doctrine he stated boldly that the facts of human experience ' have compelled all nations to believe , either that God , or that ...
... human experience . Milton went further than that . In his post- humously published Latin work on Christian doctrine he stated boldly that the facts of human experience ' have compelled all nations to believe , either that God , or that ...
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... human face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite things , ' human ' and ' divine ' . This is a favourite word - order of Milton's , and its rhetorical ...
... human face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite things , ' human ' and ' divine ' . This is a favourite word - order of Milton's , and its rhetorical ...
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... human experience on earth ( and , as MacDiarmid accepted from Dostoyevsky , human experience means human suffering ) that provides the test of the meaning of it all . MacDiarmid sometimes seemed to hover between believing that the ...
... human experience on earth ( and , as MacDiarmid accepted from Dostoyevsky , human experience means human suffering ) that provides the test of the meaning of it all . MacDiarmid sometimes seemed to hover between believing that the ...
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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