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...Yale News congratulates the college on the fact that a last year's file of the News brought $5.00 at an auction at Phillips Andover, while the CRIMSON was carried away at an offer of $2.05. Even Satan is appreciated by his own angles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/12/1885 | See Source »

...hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...greatest Devil of all, from a literary point of view, seems to me to be Goethe's Mephistopheles. He has little in common with Milton's Satan. There is none of the grandeur, indomitable will, and unconquerable love of independence and power, which mark the creation of the great Puritan poet. This is the modern Devil. He has seen through this great humbug which men call the world. He has no desire to get himself into trouble by trying to overturn the powers that be. Of course they are all wrong, but then he likes to make an occasional morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...seems now very much as if the vein of the Devil had been worked as far as it can be, and the Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

Scene - Young ladies boarding school. Prof.: "What can you say of Plutus?" Miss D.: "He was the son of Satan, and when his father died he gave him Hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1882 | See Source »

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