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... true in essentials and may be in details . The reconciliation certainly took place in 1645. Milton soon gave proof of magnanimity in a way that was torment for a scholar , teacher , and writer : when in the summer of 1646 , after the ...
... true in essentials and may be in details . The reconciliation certainly took place in 1645. Milton soon gave proof of magnanimity in a way that was torment for a scholar , teacher , and writer : when in the summer of 1646 , after the ...
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... true king who rules his own “ Passions , desires , and fears . " Glory , the praise of " A miscellaneous rabble " ( a view of the popu- lace more classical and Miltonic - and Shakespearian- than Christlike ) , is set against God's ...
... true king who rules his own “ Passions , desires , and fears . " Glory , the praise of " A miscellaneous rabble " ( a view of the popu- lace more classical and Miltonic - and Shakespearian- than Christlike ) , is set against God's ...
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... true hero , his account of a true king , and his general repudiation of worldly glory are , as we observed , in accord with Renaissance humanism . And this same volume , we remember , contained a drama modeled on the works of Aeschylus ...
... true hero , his account of a true king , and his general repudiation of worldly glory are , as we observed , in accord with Renaissance humanism . And this same volume , we remember , contained a drama modeled on the works of Aeschylus ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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