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...conscious effort: Satan has assumed the form of a toad and is found by the angels 'close at the eare of Eve': Assaying by his Devilish art to reach The Organs of her Fancie, and with them forge Illusions as he list, Fantasms and Dreams . . . Vain hopes, vain aimes,...

...inherently deceitful. As a faculty of illusion it is prone to the influence of the Deluder: Satan sits Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying...forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams . . . [Milton, Paradise Lost, IV 800] Pascal devotes a whole sequence of thoughts to exposing the imagination...

...who engenders "sensual Appetite," "Assaying by his Devilish art to reach / The Organs of her [Eve's] Fancy, and with them forge / Illusions as he list, Phantasms and Dreams" (PI IV 801-3)." In a dream, it is the image of the forbidden tree of knowledge that lures Eve, "fair...

...Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, 800 Assaying by his devilish art364 to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint Th' animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gende breaths...

...braided train." Satan is then discovered in the Garden, next to sleeping Eve, "close at the ear of Eve I Assaying by his Devilish art to reach / The Organs of her Fancy" (Paradise Lost, 4.304—7, 347—49, 800). In book 1 Sin is "Serpent arm'd" and is called "the Snaky...

...direct In search of whom they sought: him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve; 4 Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of...forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams. . . (c) Rising inversion We have seen how a falling inversion functions by the omission of an unstressed...

...farther), and their descendants would, most undoubtedly, have so continued; but behold, Satan, as when Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish arts to reach The organs of her fancy,33 comes now in the likeness of an "all men are born free and...

...Paradise Lost, Gabriel's ministering angels go to check on Satan's doings in the Garden: him there they found Squat like a Toad, close at the ear of Eve;...Assaying by his Devilish art to reach The Organs of her Fancie, and with them forge Illusions as he list, Fantasms and Dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might...