This is a myth that has and will continue to haunt Milton all the way up through Paradise Lost.

这个神话曾一度而且会一直萦绕着弥尔顿,并贯穿了《失乐园》全诗。

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My guess is that our sense of Milton's power, however that power is imagined, is intimately related to the way in which Milton himself represents power in the characters of Satan and of God in Paradise Lost.

我猜我们对弥尔顿力量的理解，不管我们如何想象这力量，与弥尔顿在《失乐园》中所写撒旦和上帝两角色对,力量的展方式切密切相关。

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