 It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 68by John Milton - 1848Full view - About this book
 | J. Sullivan - Education - 2001 - 260 pages
...statement made even earlier.44 In 1644 John Milton argued in parliament against censorship of printing: what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?.. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. thai never sallies out... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom [judgment, as well as doom] which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - Fiction - 2002 - 524 pages
...evil was a common interpretation of Genesis 3:22, which may originate in Milton's Areopagitica (1644): 'that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil' (I owe this note to John Worthen). n. My Lady Wish-fort . . . delight in : Lady Wishfort, aunt to the... | |
 | Wendy Lesser - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 253 pages
...an attack on the tyranny of censorship, Milton asked Parliament a question he considered rhetorical: "what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?" In other words, how could God have said that Adam and Eve possessed free will when he had forbidden... | |
 | Gunther R. Kress - Computers and literacy - 2003 - 212 pages
...rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evill, that is to say of knowing good by evill. As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdome... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.101 As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what jontinence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom that Adam fell into of knowing good and evill, that is to say, of knowing good by evill. . . . Since... | |
 | Joe E. Barnhart - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 274 pages
...rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evill, that is to say of knowing good by evill.4 Let us then consider Paradise Lost and also The Divine... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam 1 Venus sets Psyche the impossible task of sorting a vast quantity of mixed grains and seeds out into... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...suited to a fallen than to an unfallen world, as Milton himself suggests, when he says in Areopagitica, "perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil?"61 This statement renders illogical Milton's later description, in this same text, of Adam's... | |
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