Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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Page 83
... Charles move in their plan of attack " from violence to craft . " Satan , after his martial defeat in heaven , has Beelzebub propose the " easier enterprise " of corrupting the " puny habitants " of earth . Charles praised his own ...
... Charles move in their plan of attack " from violence to craft . " Satan , after his martial defeat in heaven , has Beelzebub propose the " easier enterprise " of corrupting the " puny habitants " of earth . Charles praised his own ...
Page 97
... Charles , like Satan , first put his rebellion into action by calling a council of his peers . In the case of the latter , all but one of the peers complied with their ruler's wishes ; in the case of Charles , they examined his motives ...
... Charles , like Satan , first put his rebellion into action by calling a council of his peers . In the case of the latter , all but one of the peers complied with their ruler's wishes ; in the case of Charles , they examined his motives ...
Page 163
... Charles as he really existed , but with Milton's image of him . Charles , for Milton , is almost a literary creation : he is made by Milton into the tyrant and it is the nature of tyranny itself that is being depicted in Milton's works ...
... Charles as he really existed , but with Milton's image of him . Charles , for Milton , is almost a literary creation : he is made by Milton into the tyrant and it is the nature of tyranny itself that is being depicted in Milton's works ...
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