...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...than to an unfallen world, as Milton himself suggests, when he says in Areopagitica, "perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil?"61 This statement renders illogical Milton's later description, in this same text, of Adam's...

...Spenser Studies 16 (2001). 8. Eg, in Areopagitica: "As therefore the state of man now is [ie, fallen], what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil?" Selected Prose, 213. Cf. also Sonnet 1 1, "I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs," in anger...

...door but much that passes moves around a textual crux that now needs to be examined in some detail: 'He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of evill? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of evill? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...constancy.34 Similarly, Areopagitica famously interconnects the virtues of discernment and abstention: 'He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...

...cruelties of the novel would not have been possible. What Maisie Knew is a variation on the Miltonic theme "of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil."10 Maisie's innocence is a weak, passive thing till she acquires the knowledge to which the title...