...enormous brood, and birthright seized By younger Saturn. P. £., i. 511. lifted up so high, I 'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set...gratitude, So burdensome ; still paying, still to owe. PL, iv. 53. Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And...

...SHAKSPEARE. 3. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child ! SHAKSPEARE. 4. A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 5. What can I pay thee for this noble usage, But grateful praise...

...SHAKSPEARE. 8. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child ! SRAKSPEARE. 4. A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 5. What can I pay thee for this noble usage, But grateful praise...

...voicing his hatred for the illumination of the sun, locates the motive for his rebellion in the desire to "quit / The debt immense of endless gratitude, / So burdensome still paying, still to owe" (4.51-53). The author of Comus planted the Pauline virtue of virginity in the pigsty of an excremental...

...historical awareness in the Renaissance will find abundant evidence of his influence in what follows. "... a grateful mind / By owing owes not, but still pays, at once / Indebted and discharg'd." The American University in Cairo provided me with a grant which supported further research...

...being an ' 'easy recompense" to an endless burden he could never repay. lifted up so high I sdein'd subjection, and thought one step higher Would set...paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted...

...against the beneficent king of heaven because his favors force Satan to assume, and continually confess, "The debt immense of endless gratitude, / So burdensome still paying, still to owe."44 In the letters of thanksgiving to Danvers, glimmers of the onerous nature of the favors that...

...colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc. Cover art by Norman Green Printed in the USA A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. — Paradise Lost Do male authors thank their babysitters? I must. Christi Morris was here when I was...

...Satan makes this movement typical of demonic anxiety by defining the liberty of heaven as bondage to a "debt immense of endless gratitude, / So burdensome, still paying, still to owe" (4.52-53). Thus Satan posits God's service (freedom) as servility (unfreedom), and self-slavery as...

...is potentially liberating, thus revealing a dialectical relationship between obedience and freedom. "A grateful mind / By owing owes not, but still pays, at once / Indebted and discharg'd; what burden then?" (4.55-7), Satan admits, recognizing that unmerited advancement leads...