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... critical student of sources , Milton was in the new tradition of historiography - represented by William Camden , Sir John Hayward , Samuel Daniel , and others- which owed much to the classical historians and to such moderns as ...
... critical student of sources , Milton was in the new tradition of historiography - represented by William Camden , Sir John Hayward , Samuel Daniel , and others- which owed much to the classical historians and to such moderns as ...
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... critical discourses were probably of special value . But , even if the Italians had never existed , Milton's classi- cal instincts and his conception of the religious and prophetic function of poetry would have led him toward Roman ...
... critical discourses were probably of special value . But , even if the Italians had never existed , Milton's classi- cal instincts and his conception of the religious and prophetic function of poetry would have led him toward Roman ...
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... critical comments ) . From the start of his pamphleteering until his death Milton was attacked , at length or in brief gibes , about four times as often as he was cited with approval , and the chorus of abuse was loudest in 1660. From ...
... critical comments ) . From the start of his pamphleteering until his death Milton was attacked , at length or in brief gibes , about four times as often as he was cited with approval , and the chorus of abuse was loudest in 1660. From ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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