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... present , not the timeless or Latin historical present ; the narrator speaks as a man much closer to the scene , with his slangy reference to the " Good old Cause " which would sound quite out of place among the epic generalizations and ...
... present , not the timeless or Latin historical present ; the narrator speaks as a man much closer to the scene , with his slangy reference to the " Good old Cause " which would sound quite out of place among the epic generalizations and ...
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... present condition is a dete- rioration ; he uses the Fall as a metaphor for patterns of psychological and political experiences without con- ceiving of it with imaginative conviction as an histori- cal fact . While he could therefore in ...
... present condition is a dete- rioration ; he uses the Fall as a metaphor for patterns of psychological and political experiences without con- ceiving of it with imaginative conviction as an histori- cal fact . While he could therefore in ...
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... present him in a peculiarly significant relationship to language because he was a man entrusted by God with a secret , who sinned by telling that secret.13 Milton gives almost as much emphasis , we shall find , to this aspect of ...
... present him in a peculiarly significant relationship to language because he was a man entrusted by God with a secret , who sinned by telling that secret.13 Milton gives almost as much emphasis , we shall find , to this aspect of ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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