Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Scalar Milton

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

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

specious

specious. OED2: "Having a fair or attractive appearance or character, calculated to make a favourable impression on the mind, but in reality devoid of the qualities apparently possessed." The serpent will be such a creature with Satan inside. What's more, the Serpent will claim he has eaten the forbidden fruit, but he hasn't.

Many thanks to The Milton Reading Room edited by Thomas H. Luxon and copyrighted by the Trustees of Dartmouth College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.dartmouth.edu.


Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, March, 2015
Comment on this page
  • Local Discussion
    •
  • Popout
    •
 

Discussion of "specious"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

IX.279 - IX.566

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