The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . es thou,Who for my wilful crime art banished further consolation yet secureI carry hence : though all by me is lost,Such favour I unworthy am me the Promised Seed shall all restore. So spake our mother Eve ; and Adam heardWell pleased, but answered not ; for now too nighThe Archangel stood. 262 Epic of the Fall In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain—then disappeared. They, loo
The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . es thou,Who for my wilful crime art banished further consolation yet secureI carry hence : though all by me is lost,Such favour I unworthy am me the Promised Seed shall all restore. So spake our mother Eve ; and Adam heardWell pleased, but answered not ; for now too nighThe Archangel stood. 262 Epic of the Fall In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain—then disappeared. They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat. Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. And so the Commedia of the Creation endswith the Tragedia of the ^ CHAPTRR Angel of Presumption and Other Devils. TIIE two grandest poetic conceptions of the Spiritof Evil to be found in the whole of Englishliterature are, without doubt, Satan, the Angel ofPresumption of Casdmon (se engel ofermddes), andSatan, the fallen Archangel of Milton. In the present chapter we propose to compare therespective characteristics of these two colossal be-ings ;—or rather, these two conceptions of the samecolossal being,—both before and after the expulsionof the rebel hosts from the Empyrean ; and, if weintroduce the Serpent of the Hebrew story, or anymodern personification of the Spirit of Evil, we shalldo so simply to bring out, in still bolder relief, thesalient points in the main study. It is scarcely necessary to premise, that with anyphilosophical or theological speculations on the Origin of Evil, or the existence of a PersonalDevil, we have no concern in the present
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