ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Omnipotence, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Gorgonian

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 200
• Professor: Wes Folkerth

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High on a throne of royal state, which far. Outshon the wealth of ormus and of ind, Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand. Showrs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais"d [ 5 ] Book 2 opens with a bit of tortured logic. We are taken to the council in pandemonium, where the devils are going to decide what the next course of action will be. The image we get here is satan as the prince of hell. Then he starts to address the assembly and tell them what is going on. For since no deep within her gulf can hold. Celestial vertues rising, will appear [ 15 ] More glorious and more dread then from no fall, And trust themselves to fear no second fate: Mee though just right, and the fixt laws of heav"n. Did first create your leader, next free choice,