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... intellectual , a man of astonishing intellectual range and command of learning , than whom one could not be more highly educated ; essentially didactic and doctrinaire , always convinced that he was in possession of the truth and that ...
... intellectual , a man of astonishing intellectual range and command of learning , than whom one could not be more highly educated ; essentially didactic and doctrinaire , always convinced that he was in possession of the truth and that ...
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Portrait of a Mind Alfred Leslie Rowse. - - with religion was intellectual and moral - and he was highly moralistic . Shakespeare was a conformist in religion , an accepter of the order of the universe , not disturbed by the intellectual ...
Portrait of a Mind Alfred Leslie Rowse. - - with religion was intellectual and moral - and he was highly moralistic . Shakespeare was a conformist in religion , an accepter of the order of the universe , not disturbed by the intellectual ...
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... intellectual make - up was utterly charmless - that Milton had personal charm . Here is the paradox ; here is the conflict . His intellectual position was intolerable , even hateful ; yet he was a poet of very great genius , the second ...
... intellectual make - up was utterly charmless - that Milton had personal charm . Here is the paradox ; here is the conflict . His intellectual position was intolerable , even hateful ; yet he was a poet of very great genius , the second ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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