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... Eve's " plaint " is the effect of grace , sudden and overpowering . Adam's " heart relented " : he is converted . His own speech becomes " peaceful " like Eve he will " no more contend , nor blame ” [ X , 958 ] -as he returns to ...
... Eve's " plaint " is the effect of grace , sudden and overpowering . Adam's " heart relented " : he is converted . His own speech becomes " peaceful " like Eve he will " no more contend , nor blame ” [ X , 958 ] -as he returns to ...
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Anne Ferry. speech has believable power to convert Adam . Yet the question remains why Milton chose to make Eve's words the human instrument of redemption when it was she who appeared most susceptible to Satanic rhetoric and when it was ...
Anne Ferry. speech has believable power to convert Adam . Yet the question remains why Milton chose to make Eve's words the human instrument of redemption when it was she who appeared most susceptible to Satanic rhetoric and when it was ...
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Anne Ferry. sin as it is acted out in the presentation of Adam and Eve after the Fall , we inevitably read the first re- demptive speech as the invention of Eve rather than of Adam . Milton prepares the reader elaborately to make this ...
Anne Ferry. sin as it is acted out in the presentation of Adam and Eve after the Fall , we inevitably read the first re- demptive speech as the invention of Eve rather than of Adam . Milton prepares the reader elaborately to make this ...
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INTRODUCTION Literary Connections | 1 |
PART | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
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