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Page 102
... writers with whom it is of the utmost importance . His life and work were so bound up with the historical events of the Puritan Revolution that it is impossible to understand either without a knowledge of the time and its circumstances ...
... writers with whom it is of the utmost importance . His life and work were so bound up with the historical events of the Puritan Revolution that it is impossible to understand either without a knowledge of the time and its circumstances ...
Page 108
... writer of political tracts . He is writing , he says , ' for the good of the British nation ' . The age was a revolutionary one , though for a moment the revolution was at a pause . And ' worthy deeds are not often destitute of worthy ...
... writer of political tracts . He is writing , he says , ' for the good of the British nation ' . The age was a revolutionary one , though for a moment the revolution was at a pause . And ' worthy deeds are not often destitute of worthy ...
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... writing is characterless chaff , there is an inflationary Milton industry as there is a Shakespeare industry , neither of which illuminates the writer , but buries him under a mountain of commentary without significance . I prefer to ...
... writing is characterless chaff , there is an inflationary Milton industry as there is a Shakespeare industry , neither of which illuminates the writer , but buries him under a mountain of commentary without significance . I prefer to ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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