 | William Henry Furness - 1836 - 348 pages
...never suggested themselves to his mind we cannot affirm, for the history expressly states otherwise. "Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind :" But no idea of self-aggrandizement ever caused him... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...Of our last evening's talk in this thy dream, lint with addition strange ; yet be not sad : I л ¡I into the mind of God or man May come and go, so uuapproved ; and leave Nu sopt or blame behind : which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...disturbed by the irruptions of wicked imaginations, against too great dejection, and too anxious alarms j for thoughts are only criminal, when ! they are first...Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprovcd, and leave No spot or stain behind, MILTON. In futurity chiefly are the snares lodged, by... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...methinks, I find Of our last evening's talk in this thy dream, But with addition strange ; yet be not sad : Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved ; and leave No spot or blame behind : which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - 1988 - 188 pages
...angels have freedom. That Satan should conceive of alternatives to obedience is also not surprising. "Evil into the mind of God or Man / may come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot of blame behind" (5.117—19), Adam tells Eve. But his realization that words have power to break down... | |
 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte - 1990 - 367 pages
...genuinely feels evil impulses, it is a sure sign that she will give in to them. Milton's idea that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame behind . . ." (Paradise Lost 5.11719) has no place in the Gothicists' view of female virtue.... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...comes testimony that he, like God, could have read unlicensed heresy in Eden without loss of innocence: "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot of blame behind" (4.117-19). "Evil," in a narrowly cognitive sense as Adam employs it here, enters... | |
 | Brian Caraher - 1992 - 226 pages
...about beings other than himself does not compel him to create them at some time. When Adam says that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go" (V.117-19), he is particularizing the more general postulate of the freedom of the intellect to think... | |
 | Andrew V. Ettin - 1994 - 236 pages
...may be truer of articulated speech than of thought, although obviously the separation cannot be neat. "Evil into the mind of God or man / May come and go, so unapproved,"14 Milton's Adam reassures Eve after a troubling dream. Bringing that evil forth from the... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - 1995 - 228 pages
...times. Milton gave Satan and the fallen deities some of his favorite positions and even allowed that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame" (Paradise Lost V 11719). Of course, Milton's is a definite two-value orientation in this passage;... | |
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