... least action, overawed His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought. That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge. (IX, 452-466) Thus ... Raphael and Satan. Satan does compliment her beauty extravagantly with phrases such as "Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair,/ Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine/ By gift, and thy Celestial Beauty adore/ With ravishment beheld - (IX, 538-541). Yet the fact that he, even self-admit...

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... Eve. Adam is created with the intent of being the guardian of God's creation and father to mankind. God gives Adam purpose by proclaiming, "This paradise I give thee, count it thine / To till and keep, and of the fruit to eat" (8.319-320). Adam's life is based upon the charge issued by God. As he is a perfect creation of God, he ... relationship he shares with Eve. Adam tries to warn Eve of the possibility of danger, explaining, "What hath been warned us, what malicious foe / Envying our happiness, and of his own / Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame / By sly assault; and somewhe...

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