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... nature - Everything shows that this was what he thought them to be ; nor was he wrong , as the events of the Revolution were to bring home to him bitterly . Very well : then his political and social teaching should have been in keeping ...
... nature - Everything shows that this was what he thought them to be ; nor was he wrong , as the events of the Revolution were to bring home to him bitterly . Very well : then his political and social teaching should have been in keeping ...
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Portrait of a Mind Alfred Leslie Rowse. Or Nature . God and Nature bid the same , When he who rules is worthiest , and excels Them whom he governs . The rule of the elect - i.e. , Milton - is what is put forward . In dispensing charity ...
Portrait of a Mind Alfred Leslie Rowse. Or Nature . God and Nature bid the same , When he who rules is worthiest , and excels Them whom he governs . The rule of the elect - i.e. , Milton - is what is put forward . In dispensing charity ...
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... nature . - Yet we must never forget when so much in Milton's 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 ...
... nature . - Yet we must never forget when so much in Milton's 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 ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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