 | Anna K. Nardo - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 292 pages
...lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. O then at last relent: is there no place Left for Repentance,...but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...seems a Heav'n. O then at last relent: is there no place Left for Repentance, none for Pardon left? 80 None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduc'd With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. O then at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left? 80 None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame Among the spirits... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...When we first read the speech, we think (do we not?) that it is God to whom Satan is appealing: "O then at last relent: is there no place / Left for Repentance, none for Pardon left?" (4.79-80). He is begging God to ease up, in fact to allow him to repent, to return him, as he says... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - Philosophy - 2003 - 462 pages
...hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide. O then at last relent; is there no place Left for repentance; none for pardon left?s IN general, a protracted sound, joined to a kind of languor or weakness in the movement, will... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...lives in and even Satan wishes it away in a Faustian mood: Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; O then at last relent: is there no place Left for Repentance,...Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduc'd. (4.75, 79-83) But such moments are rare. Satan admits that in spite... | |
 | John S. Hatcher - Religion - 2005 - 290 pages
...thou, since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. In another place he states, O then at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance,...Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could... | |
 | David Louis Sedley - Skepticism in literature - 2005 - 224 pages
...question ("is there no place / Left for repentance, none for pardon left"), and collapses in rejection: "None left but by submission; and that word / Disdain...and my dread of shame / Among the Sprits beneath" (4.73, 79-80, 81-83). Satan tries again by hypothesizing what would follow if he repented: But say... | |
 | Mary C. Fenton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 254 pages
...arrives at the opposite of the engrafted state with God. He is in a place entirely separated from God: is there no place Left for Repentance, none for Pardon...but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me. (79-82) The internal place at which he arrives is the place of complete passiveness and hopelessness... | |
 | Alison Keith, Stephen Rupp, Stephen James Rupp - Ovide moralisé (Poem) - 2007 - 358 pages
...entertains, only to reject, the possibility of conversion with painful if destructive selfknowledge: "O then at last relent: is there no place | Left for...by submission; and that word | Disdain forbids me" (4. 79—82). 24 It is striking the way he turns a part of his own character - Disdain - into an almost... | |
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