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... Tiresias ' descriptive adjective " sunny " ) and because they are not modified by any other words -as for example in such phrases as " brown shade " or “ shade of the tree " -they are almost abstractions rather than images : they evoke ...
... Tiresias ' descriptive adjective " sunny " ) and because they are not modified by any other words -as for example in such phrases as " brown shade " or “ shade of the tree " -they are almost abstractions rather than images : they evoke ...
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... Tiresias ' words define his progress toward the wall . We learn that Samson has reached " yonder bank " only in a manner roughly parallel to the ways Samson himself learns it , by recording the different sensations caused upon the skin ...
... Tiresias ' words define his progress toward the wall . We learn that Samson has reached " yonder bank " only in a manner roughly parallel to the ways Samson himself learns it , by recording the different sensations caused upon the skin ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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