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Page 96
... Fruit Of vegetable Gold ; and next to Life Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . ( IV , 214–22 ) The garden is " pleasant , " the Tree of Life is " noble , " " eminent , " and its ...
... Fruit Of vegetable Gold ; and next to Life Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . ( IV , 214–22 ) The garden is " pleasant , " the Tree of Life is " noble , " " eminent , " and its ...
Page 104
... fruit ; from Eve , an incident revealing her potential narcis- sism . That these two speeches strike us as at least faintly strange , remote , even contrived , is not necessarily a weakness , however . The strangeness makes us attend to ...
... fruit ; from Eve , an incident revealing her potential narcis- sism . That these two speeches strike us as at least faintly strange , remote , even contrived , is not necessarily a weakness , however . The strangeness makes us attend to ...
Page 174
... Fruit be here to excess . . . . ( IX , 647-48 ) It appears that flattery of Eve's intellect has had the effect of putting that intellect to sleep . She scarcely bothers to ask whether it is likely that God has put " magical " fruit in ...
... Fruit be here to excess . . . . ( IX , 647-48 ) It appears that flattery of Eve's intellect has had the effect of putting that intellect to sleep . She scarcely bothers to ask whether it is likely that God has put " magical " fruit in ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton