...for thoughts are only criminal, when ! they are first chosen, and then voluntarily continued. •"*" Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprovcd, and leave No spot or stain behind, MILTON. In futurity chiefly are the snares lodged, by...

...contemptible, or insignificant, did we consider the dignity of the giver.— Thomas a Kempis. 967. Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind. Milton. 968. God made thee perfect,not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it...

...the calm dignity of philosophical discuslion. We are told by the poet of " Paradise Lost" that— " Evil Into the mind of God or man May come and go, so uiiapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind. In like manner, we suppose, any man with such a fatal...

...genuinely feels evil impulses, it is a sure sign that she will give in to them. Milton's idea that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame behind . . ." (Paradise Lost 5.11719) has no place in the...

...comes testimony that he, like God, could have read unlicensed heresy in Eden without loss of innocence: "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot of blame behind" (4.117-19). "Evil," in a narrowly cognitive sense...

...about beings other than himself does not compel him to create them at some time. When Adam says that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go" (V.117-19), he is particularizing the more general postulate of the freedom of the intellect to think...

...may be truer of articulated speech than of thought, although obviously the separation cannot be neat. "Evil into the mind of God or man / May come and go, so unapproved,"14 Milton's Adam reassures Eve after a troubling dream. Bringing that evil forth from the...

...times. Milton gave Satan and the fallen deities some of his favorite positions and even allowed that "Evil into the mind of God or Man / May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave / No spot or blame" (Paradise Lost V 11719). Of course, Milton's is a definite...

...latter is prone to produce dreams, but Eve, Adam says, need not be disturbed by her strange dream. "Evil into the mind of god or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind; which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream Waking thou never wilt consent to...

...employment of cherubic disguise to deceive Uriel, Adam declares: Evil into the mind of god [ie angel] or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind. (5.117-19) Satan's laughable posture at the ear of Eve undermines the prevalent view that he is "never...