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... face shalt thou eat bread ' , God says to man in Genesis , particularizing a central part of his punishment . But ... face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite ...
... face shalt thou eat bread ' , God says to man in Genesis , particularizing a central part of his punishment . But ... face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite ...
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... face the post - lapsarian world with hope and dignity . They leave Paradise , now made terrible by armed cherubim ... Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : Som natural tears they drop'd , but wip'd them soon ; The World was all before them ...
... face the post - lapsarian world with hope and dignity . They leave Paradise , now made terrible by armed cherubim ... Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : Som natural tears they drop'd , but wip'd them soon ; The World was all before them ...
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... faces . Where are the faces ? Who Are you all out there ? ' Then in his changing dream He was a little nearer , and he ... face , so that he would have hailed them As sons of God but that something restrained him . And he remembered all ...
... faces . Where are the faces ? Who Are you all out there ? ' Then in his changing dream He was a little nearer , and he ... face , so that he would have hailed them As sons of God but that something restrained him . And he remembered all ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words