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... speeches . The Lady wins the debate - but Comus ' are the more beautiful and persuasive lines , as are Delilah's in her debate with Samson . Milton was as impatient as Bacon of scholastic logic , but Belilal's speech in the Council ...
... speeches . The Lady wins the debate - but Comus ' are the more beautiful and persuasive lines , as are Delilah's in her debate with Samson . Milton was as impatient as Bacon of scholastic logic , but Belilal's speech in the Council ...
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... speech as reflecting Milton's own attitude , and yet to accept Samson Agonistes as Milton's final work , ( as most of these critics do ) seems to me " to make strange contradiction . " If we must persist in the perversity of reading an ...
... speech as reflecting Milton's own attitude , and yet to accept Samson Agonistes as Milton's final work , ( as most of these critics do ) seems to me " to make strange contradiction . " If we must persist in the perversity of reading an ...
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... speech is one of Milton's greatest . That long training in debate had never served him better . He could and did give the Devil his due to such an extent as to persuade Blake that he was of the Devil's party . As he paraphrased the ...
... speech is one of Milton's greatest . That long training in debate had never served him better . He could and did give the Devil his due to such an extent as to persuade Blake that he was of the Devil's party . As he paraphrased the ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid appear Areopagitica basic begins Belial Biblical blind Book called Cambridge Chorus Christ Christian Church classical climax Comus Creation critics Dalilah dark death deliberately Diodati drama earth echoes Edward Phillips elegy English epic Eve's eyes fallen angels familiar father feel Genesis God's Greek hear Heaven Hell Horton Il Penseroso implied Italian John Milton King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes learned light lines living Lord Ludlow Castle Lycidas masque Milton wrote mind modern Moloch mood Muse Nativity Ode Nature pagan Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paraphrase particularly passage Penseroso phrase Pindar poem poet poetry Prologue Psalms Puritan Raphael reader Reason Renaissance rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan says scene seems sestet shepherd sing song sonnet sound speech Spenser Spirit stanza style suggested temptation thee theme thou Tillyard tion tradition verse word write written young youth