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... Doctrine reveals Milton as heretical on several major points of traditional belief . He was an Arian , i.e. , he did not believe in the Trinity . His ' view of the Godhead seems singularly Milton's own ' : it would be.3 He disagreed ...
... Doctrine reveals Milton as heretical on several major points of traditional belief . He was an Arian , i.e. , he did not believe in the Trinity . His ' view of the Godhead seems singularly Milton's own ' : it would be.3 He disagreed ...
Page 202
... Doctrine he goes further , with characteristic candour and obsti- nacy , to approve of polygamy . How could he not , since it was practised by his Old Testament patriarchs ? The point needs no further labouring . Milton was the most ...
... Doctrine he goes further , with characteristic candour and obsti- nacy , to approve of polygamy . How could he not , since it was practised by his Old Testament patriarchs ? The point needs no further labouring . Milton was the most ...
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... Doctrine for the making as well as the interpretation of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained . Milton seems to have begun work on Paradise Lost about 1655 , prob- ably with some suspension when he was so agitatedly pamphleteering from ...
... Doctrine for the making as well as the interpretation of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained . Milton seems to have begun work on Paradise Lost about 1655 , prob- ably with some suspension when he was so agitatedly pamphleteering from ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
Copyright | |
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