The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . from the opposing , if I win this realm, I may becomeThe Angels Chieftain, Sovereign of the should I then cringe to Almighty GodWho does me grievous wrong ? I am longer will I be His vassal slave. This idea of making Pride—the prince of thedeadly sins,—the motive of the treason and rebel-lion of the great, rebel Archangel, is not only in ac-cordance with the Catholic teaching of the age inwhich Caedmon lived, but is far more natural, fargrander, and far truer to human failings at the
The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . from the opposing , if I win this realm, I may becomeThe Angels Chieftain, Sovereign of the should I then cringe to Almighty GodWho does me grievous wrong ? I am longer will I be His vassal slave. This idea of making Pride—the prince of thedeadly sins,—the motive of the treason and rebel-lion of the great, rebel Archangel, is not only in ac-cordance with the Catholic teaching of the age inwhich Caedmon lived, but is far more natural, fargrander, and far truer to human failings at theirnoblest, than the motive of Jealousy—one of themost unlovable of human failings—which Miltonattributes to his colossal hero. With his peculiaranthropopathic conception of the Trinity, Miltondepicts the Deity as making ;ronunciameriio withregard to his Son— This day I have begot whom I declareMy only Son, and on this holy hillHim hath anointed, whom ye now beholdAt my right hand. Your head I him appoint. In consequence of this degree, Satan turns rebel, and,. The Fall of the Rebel Angels 17 /J fraughtWith envy against the Son of Ciod, that dayHonoured by his great Father, and , King Anointed, could not bear,Through pride, that sight, and thought himself malice thence conceiving and disdain,Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hourFriendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvedWith all his legions to dislodge, and leaveUnworshippcd, unobeyed, the Throne supreme,Contemptuous. As in Caedmon, so here, this heart-secreted trea-son at length finds vent in rebellious word and Milton, however, it is not in soliloquy that Satanfirst gives expression to his disloyalty, but in a farcraftier way. Awakening his next subordinate one celestial night, he approaches him with consum-mate skill and orders him to haste with all who flythe banner of the great Lucifer, Homeward with flying march where we possessThe quarters of the North,* there
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