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Paradise Lost
book2
27
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04/22/2005

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oxymoron - evil supremecy
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to that bad eminence
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no other out come - milton's view
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vain war with heaven
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irony link with battle proud
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that in our proper motion we ascend...descent and fall to us is adverse
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back up fall why hesitate?
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what fear we then?
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Belial - contrast to Moloch
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but all was false and hollow
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belial - still got intellect, worth saving
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this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity
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emptiness - life without god
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but rater seek our own good from ourselves
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appearance/reality - wise statesman
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seemed a pillar of state
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beelzebub - suprise speech - god still will rule - but they do not realise what they have to do to correct their position - not see obvious
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for he, be sure in height or depth, still first and last will reign sole king
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mankind being newly created - mirroring fall
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if not drive, seduce them to our party
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events have happened by satan - on really by god's will
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first devised by Satan, and in part proposed
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pride of a king
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monarchal pride
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lament on man's foolishness
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wasting the earth, each other to destroy
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suggestion by milton that previous epics whoch celebrate military heroism are inferiour in subject 2 them.
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their song was partial
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again how other epics subjects are inferiour to Miltons
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vain wisdom all, and false philosophy
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description of Sin - confused, ever changing
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if shape it might ba called that shape had none
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satan presented in a nobel and epic way
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satan stood unterrified
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death and sin standing
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for never but once more
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satan's father
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o father
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Satan gives birth to sin
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out of thy head i sprung
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how god is most powerful said by sin
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for that mortal dint, save he who reigns above, none can resist
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link with 'of whose kingdpm there shall be no end'
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thy daughter and thy darling, without end
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how sin can get in but only god can close them
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she opened, but to shut excelled her powers
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fall of satan
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plumb down he drops
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link with mark 1 and luke 4 devil addressing christ
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answered: ' i know thee, stranger, who thou art
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pun - satan accursed - link with hour of damnation in eden
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accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies
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episis
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thus satan
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