... is bent to evil from the start. Never again shall I strike down every living thing as I have done. As long as the world lasts, so long will last seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night. And I seal this promise with a sign-a sign forever of my covenant with you and me ... and every living thing: my rainbow, which I have put among the clouds.""(OT 14) Yahweh had felt so bad for what he did that he made a covenant never to do it again for as long as earth existed. He did this because he realized that humans are born ... build her: let her beam equal her leng...

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• Grade Level: High School

... but strengthening it. His "jabs" at the king are more like acknowledging "pokes", with the intensity of the statements diluted with his careful choice of words. Charles II "scattered" his seed across the land. "Scatter" conjures images of a nurturing and harmless man whereas Dryden's choice of "infected" draws a more harsh and negative tone. Seeing how Charles II was probably aging faster ... the mortal man who " sin our biased nature leans, / The careful Devil is still at hand with means; (77-80). The natural tendency of man will always lean toward the bad. With all the praise and just...

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