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... final words in the Old Testament version of the story : 16 O Lord God , remember me , I pray thee , and strengthen me , I pray thee , only this once , O God , that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes . [ Judges ...
... final words in the Old Testament version of the story : 16 O Lord God , remember me , I pray thee , and strengthen me , I pray thee , only this once , O God , that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes . [ Judges ...
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... final step toward the " rest " which is the goal of all men . In the oblivion of death Samson achieves the condition of " silence " identified in Milton's poem with perfect freedom from the " mutable . . . ways of men . " The ultimate ...
... final step toward the " rest " which is the goal of all men . In the oblivion of death Samson achieves the condition of " silence " identified in Milton's poem with perfect freedom from the " mutable . . . ways of men . " The ultimate ...
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... final attainment , the inviolability of the individual self . This emphasis at the end of the play is in- creased by numerous images of dying and sleeping which Dryden borrowed from Shakespeare's final scenes ( the original suggestion ...
... final attainment , the inviolability of the individual self . This emphasis at the end of the play is in- creased by numerous images of dying and sleeping which Dryden borrowed from Shakespeare's final scenes ( the original suggestion ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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