The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... choice , the Lord will not answer . The whole problem of choice is at the very center of Paradise Lost , for it is a poem deeply concerned with the consequences of those choices that are now entailed upon us . In Paradise Lost Milton ...
... choice , the Lord will not answer . The whole problem of choice is at the very center of Paradise Lost , for it is a poem deeply concerned with the consequences of those choices that are now entailed upon us . In Paradise Lost Milton ...
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... choice , those choices indeed that have been forgotten as such and have been promoted to the status of the Nature of Things . In The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates he denounces in essence the ten- dency to see those institutions that ...
... choice , those choices indeed that have been forgotten as such and have been promoted to the status of the Nature of Things . In The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates he denounces in essence the ten- dency to see those institutions that ...
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... choice Leads him perplext , where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The irksome hours , till this great Chief return . ( 516-27 ) The passage as a whole seems in many ways one of the most traditional ...
... choice Leads him perplext , where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The irksome hours , till this great Chief return . ( 516-27 ) The passage as a whole seems in many ways one of the most traditional ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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