 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...the tension. The eschatological tension culminates in a present indicative of prophetic fulfillment: "And then at last our bliss / Full and perfect is, / But now begins... ." The first present tense refers to the future (the last judgment) and the second to the past (the... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
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And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins... 
