...will not brook, And left to herself, if evil thence ensue, Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of thir vain contest appear'd no end. The End of the Ninth Book. 278 PARADISE LOST. BOOK X. THE ARGUMENT.....

...chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.' « Milton : — " ' Thus they in mutual accusation spent, The fruitless...neither self-condemning: And of their vain contest appeared no end ! ' " Shakespeare : — "'As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another....

...not brook ; And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse." Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless...neither self-condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. 8 HC iv THE TENTH BOOK THE ARGUMENT. — Man's transgression known, the guardian Angels...

...impaired intuition, the "inmost" of human "powers," is damage to the "self- knowing" constitutive of man: Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of thir vain contest appear'd no end. (9.1187-1189) Milton ends the book of the fall with the insight...

...plots is spelled out in the final verses of Book 9, where Adam and Eve have fallen out with each other. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless...neither self-condemning, And of their vain contest appeared no end. (9.1187-89) The strife dividing the human family repeats in little the structure of...

...of Adam and Eve to shoulder responsibility for their predicament, the narrator echoes her own words: Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless...neither self-condemning, And of their vain contest appeared no end. (9.1187-89) At that moment, when the emptiness of their "vain" words recalls the Limbo...

...their fall are registered by the powerful but inconclusive passage which brings Book 9 to a close: Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning. And of thir vain contest appear'd no end, The poet's formal lines underscore the maze-like hopelessness of...

...brook, And left to herself, if evil thence ensue, 1185 Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of thir vain contest appear'd no end. The End of the Ninth Book. BOOK X THE ARGUMENT Man's transgression...

...brook, And left to herself, if evil thence ensue, 1185 Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of thir vain contest appear'd no end. The End of the Ninth Book, 1155. In a different tone Eve has called...

...Their interminable metaphysical domestic scene takes what Milton described and remakes it for cinema: "Thus they in mutual accusation spent / The fruitless...neither self-condemning, / And of their vain contest appeared no end." 68 Even if it is initially a term relating to a configuration of dice, these "snake...