The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... gods , but in the sight of the God who is the light of the world he has his reward . The sense of a gloomy and inscrutable fatality implicit in Vergil's phrase is dispelled at a stroke . " Now he knows much of the divine grace that the ...
... gods , but in the sight of the God who is the light of the world he has his reward . The sense of a gloomy and inscrutable fatality implicit in Vergil's phrase is dispelled at a stroke . " Now he knows much of the divine grace that the ...
Page 121
... God's commandments " ; we are warned against the " bold presumption of ordering the worship and service of God after man's will in traditions and ceremonies " : First , mistrusting to find the autority of their order in the immediat ...
... God's commandments " ; we are warned against the " bold presumption of ordering the worship and service of God after man's will in traditions and ceremonies " : First , mistrusting to find the autority of their order in the immediat ...
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... God's creation , though assuredly not God himself . Her impulse is basically metonymic , a substitution of a part ... Gods ! ( 12.115-20 ) Adam's impulse is metaphoric , and metaphor , as we have seen , has a distressing way of losing ...
... God's creation , though assuredly not God himself . Her impulse is basically metonymic , a substitution of a part ... Gods ! ( 12.115-20 ) Adam's impulse is metaphoric , and metaphor , as we have seen , has a distressing way of losing ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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