The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (200 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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5151
both of them (Adam and Eve)
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5152
power, authority, rule
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5156
interrupted
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5157
begged earnestly, supplicated
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5158
robbed, stripped
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5161
easily persuaded
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5162
oppose, contradict
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5163
clearly, distinctly, openly
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5165
as unchangeable
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5168
thing, affair, events, circumstances
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5169
test, endeavor, experiment
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5170
regret, repent
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5171
happen, occur
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5175
confirm, pronounce
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5180
Adam and Eve
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5182
complexly, in multiple fashion
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5183
corrupted, injured, broke, destroyed
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5184
had happened/occurred
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5185
responsible
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5188
demonstrated
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5189
responsibility, trust
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5190
truest, purest
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5203
lenity, mercy, indulgence
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5204
release (from a debt)
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5205
“Justice must not be scorned (treated with contempt) as the free gift of kindness (bounty) has been”
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5206
one who rules by deputed power, appointed by a ruler to exercise certain powers
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5208
planned, intended
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5209
descend, fall
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5210
I possess/hold
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5211
alleviate, abate
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5212
judgment, sentence
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5213
conveyed, transferred
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5214
explain, make clear, elucidate
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5215
set free from doubt, convinced
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5217
escort, attending company
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5220
i.e., from the process of judgment, as applied to Adam and Eve
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5221
proved guilty
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5222
proof, demonstration
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5223
i.e., the animal whose body was appropriated, wrongly and without consent, by Satan
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5224
parallel, side by side
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5231
disconcerted, abashed
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5232
disturbed, unsettled, agitated
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5234
abusive language
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5235
instruction, order, mandate
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5237
narrow pathway
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5238
suffer, bear
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5240
(1) unbearable, unendurable, (2) unjustifiable
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5242
[four syllables, first and third accented]
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5243
[trisyllabic, second accented]
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5244
merely, simply
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5246
worth, excellence, honor
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5247
rule, direction
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5248
unfit, improper
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5249
office, role
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5251
babbling, talkative
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5252
polluted from the end = corrupted away from the purpose
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5253
faulty, corrupt
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5255
judgment, sentence
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5256
occult, obscure
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5258
crush, smash, break
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5261
display (of force)
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5262
wrongfully appropriated
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5265
the serpent’s
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5266
his fatal bruise = the Crucifixion
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5267
action of conceiving (becoming pregnant)
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5268
unasked, uninvited, uncommanded
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5270
youthful coat = sloughed-off skin
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5272
not much = not at all
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5273
shameful, injurious
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5274
satisfied [adjective]
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5275
view from opposite sides
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5276
extraordinary, enormous, excessive, hyperviolent/gross/wrong
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5277
i.e., opening the way (and the gates) for Satan
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5278
place, abode
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5279
rule, control
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5280
[adjective, modifying “dominion”]
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5281
draws me on = leads me on
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5282
whether, either
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5283
affinity, harmony
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5285
is powerful
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5286
profound depth
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5287
not affording passage
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5288
enterprising
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5291
communication, passage
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5293
miss, mistake
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5296
take in hand, attempt
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5300
perceiving by smell
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5302
fluttering, flapping
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5304
swimming together
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