A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 201
... Satan's masked motive of ambitious pride . Milton's more mundane and romantic imagination , re- vealing itself in a new abundance of poetic similes , returns to him with Satan alighting on the convex of the world and beholding for the ...
... Satan's masked motive of ambitious pride . Milton's more mundane and romantic imagination , re- vealing itself in a new abundance of poetic similes , returns to him with Satan alighting on the convex of the world and beholding for the ...
Page 256
... Satan by an angel , and holds loving dialogue with Eve . In Act III Satan in his own form tempts Adam and is firmly repulsed . In Act IV he approaches Eve as a serpent , flatters her , and finally persuades her to eat the apple . Adam ...
... Satan by an angel , and holds loving dialogue with Eve . In Act III Satan in his own form tempts Adam and is firmly repulsed . In Act IV he approaches Eve as a serpent , flatters her , and finally persuades her to eat the apple . Adam ...
Page 307
... Satan is always associated with the quarters of the North , for which reason Milton puts Ophiuchus in the arctic sky , though only with considerable astronomical freedom . Even when Milton digresses in his similes he does not do so , as ...
... Satan is always associated with the quarters of the North , for which reason Milton puts Ophiuchus in the arctic sky , though only with considerable astronomical freedom . Even when Milton digresses in his similes he does not do so , as ...
Contents
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 12 |
MILTONS STYLE AND VERSIFICATION | 151 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 422 |
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