Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pages This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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Page 179
... Fall is a very different problem from its comparative importance , and it is this we must examine in order to find ... Fall , like that of Addison or of Greenlaw and Saurat . Addison considers the Fall simply a matter of disobedience and ...
... Fall is a very different problem from its comparative importance , and it is this we must examine in order to find ... Fall , like that of Addison or of Greenlaw and Saurat . Addison considers the Fall simply a matter of disobedience and ...
Page 180
... Fall then will be the yielding of reason to passion , and in particular to the passion of sensuality . Saurat agrees entirely with this interpretation of the Fall . That it contains much truth I do not deny , but as a complete ...
... Fall then will be the yielding of reason to passion , and in particular to the passion of sensuality . Saurat agrees entirely with this interpretation of the Fall . That it contains much truth I do not deny , but as a complete ...
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... Fall . Inflamed by the fumes of the fruit the pair fall into lust , im- pure in itself and the more criminal as yielded to so frivolously at the most terribly fateful hour of mankind's whole history . When the first intoxicating effect ...
... Fall . Inflamed by the fumes of the fruit the pair fall into lust , im- pure in itself and the more criminal as yielded to so frivolously at the most terribly fateful hour of mankind's whole history . When the first intoxicating effect ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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