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...In search of whom they sought: Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, £00 Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forgr Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal...

...Eve's Satan-induced dream, during which the angelic guard, Ithuriel and Zephon, discover the tempter: him there they found Squat like a Toad, close at the...her Fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list. ... (4.799-803) Satan's influencing of Eve's dream is important in two ways. Satan's "Devilish art,"...

...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...with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams . . . [Milton, Paradise Lost, IV 800] Pascal devotes a whole sequence of thoughts to exposing...

...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...

...not from its hole. The brilliantly horrid image contains a reminiscence of Satan in Paradise Lost — him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. It also foreshadows the Jew in Eliot's Gerontion, the landlord of the decayed house who "squats on...

...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...

...led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower 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 her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he...

...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...