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  1. Aug 2018
    1. and in th' excess of joySole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n.

      Had Satan won the heavenly battle and became ruler of all, would we have had a more just, good, better god/ ultimate ruler? Is God truly tyrannical?

    2. That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate

      Trait of epic poetry: the hero witnessing some kind of horrible disaster, as well as establishing a damaging character flaw.

    3. Thither let us tendFrom off the tossing of these fiery waves,There rest, if any rest can harbour there, [ 185 ]And reassembling our afflicted Powers,

      This feels very much like the Aeneid after Aeneas and his men crash on Carthage