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... Smectymnuus . Let us note here the chief reason for this chastity . It is not religious in our sense , though it is in a more fundamental meaning ; like the great ascetics of primitive magic , Milton was chaste in order to acquire ...
... Smectymnuus . Let us note here the chief reason for this chastity . It is not religious in our sense , though it is in a more fundamental meaning ; like the great ascetics of primitive magic , Milton was chaste in order to acquire ...
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... Smectymnuus . In his preface , Milton apologizes for the violence of his language ; that is , however , the only inter- est we can discover in the pamphlet , which takes up the Bishop's arguments one by one , in this form : Remonst . It ...
... Smectymnuus . In his preface , Milton apologizes for the violence of his language ; that is , however , the only inter- est we can discover in the pamphlet , which takes up the Bishop's arguments one by one , in this form : Remonst . It ...
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... Smectymnuus are among the most inter- esting prose works of Milton , not through their main subject - matter , which is the usual polemic stuff , but through the wealth of information they contain on their author . he Milton is at this ...
... Smectymnuus are among the most inter- esting prose works of Milton , not through their main subject - matter , which is the usual polemic stuff , but through the wealth of information they contain on their author . he Milton is at this ...
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... Smectymnuus , and thus we owe to the Halls some of the most beautiful pages of Milton's prose . These are so well known and so easily accessible unlike 29 Ibid . , II , 505 . 30 Milton's sense of humor seems somewhat in abeyance here ...
... Smectymnuus , and thus we owe to the Halls some of the most beautiful pages of Milton's prose . These are so well known and so easily accessible unlike 29 Ibid . , II , 505 . 30 Milton's sense of humor seems somewhat in abeyance here ...
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... Smectymnuus . He had therefore access to sufficient sources . The constant communion with the Bible in which he lived seems to have allowed him to catch more of the old meanings than subsists of them in orthodox interpretation . Thus he ...
... Smectymnuus . He had therefore access to sufficient sources . The constant communion with the Bible in which he lived seems to have allowed him to catch more of the old meanings than subsists of them in orthodox interpretation . Thus he ...
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