Milton and the Miltonic DrydenHarvard University Press, 1968 - 238 pages |
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... corruption which is at the center of Satan's consciousness and therefore inescapably expressed in all his uses of ... corrupt use of words : 3 Thrones , Dominations , Princedomes , Vertues , Powers , If these magnific Titles yet remain ...
... corruption which is at the center of Satan's consciousness and therefore inescapably expressed in all his uses of ... corrupt use of words : 3 Thrones , Dominations , Princedomes , Vertues , Powers , If these magnific Titles yet remain ...
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... corruption is acted out in the progressive degeneration of human language . The seeds of decay in Eve's first fallen words bloom into monstrous distortions . Both Adam and Eve not only echo earlier speeches of Satan , but Adam , in his ...
... corruption is acted out in the progressive degeneration of human language . The seeds of decay in Eve's first fallen words bloom into monstrous distortions . Both Adam and Eve not only echo earlier speeches of Satan , but Adam , in his ...
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... corruption as a representative of unfallen humanity and England's history before these upheavals as a sort of golden ... corrupt modern scene . The decay of words in the fallen world for which Achitophel is spokesman we expect , then ...
... corruption as a representative of unfallen humanity and England's history before these upheavals as a sort of golden ... corrupt modern scene . The decay of words in the fallen world for which Achitophel is spokesman we expect , then ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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