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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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Alone

Eve is right to insist that both are sufficient to stand, but wrong to infer that ‘exterior help’ (9.336) should therefore be shunned, or that reasonable precautions in the presence of danger violate Edenic happiness.

Barbara K. Lewalski. (2010). Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. In: Michael O'Neill (ed.) The Cambridge History of English Poetry. pp. 255-280. [Online]. The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Cambridge Histories Online < http://dx.doi.org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1017/CHOL9780521883061.016> [Accessed 23 October 2014].
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IX.279 - IX.566

Related:  Thou sever not:,  and still erect,,  Some Spacious object,  domestick Adam,  fervently,  Access in every Vertue, in thy sight [ 310 ],  And what is Faith, Love, Vertue unassaid [ 335 ],  not free, absents thee more,  wouldst resent,  asperses,  approve,  Go; for thy stay,... (line 372-4),  Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare,  But that thou shouldst my firmness therfore doubt,  though last,  labour to avert,  done his part,,  guile,  Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?,  single or combin'd.,  God or thee,,  For such thou art, from sin and blame entire:,  Reason he made right,  specious,  But God left free the Will, for what obeyes,  Sticks no dishonor on our Front, but turns [ 330 ],  In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe,,  Faith,  Eden,  misthought,  Vertue,  Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve,,  the Patriarch of Mankinde,  Nothing imperfet or deficient left [ 345 ],  without exterior help sustaind?,  Persisted, yet submiss,  Heav'n,  submiss,  surmise prov'd false,  Firm we subsist,,  Reason he made right