Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... course , to say that it was because Milton thought his poetry too obscure for his educated con- temporary readers that he first wrote treatises in prose . But it would also be unwise not to recognize that Milton expected his prose ...
... course , to say that it was because Milton thought his poetry too obscure for his educated con- temporary readers that he first wrote treatises in prose . But it would also be unwise not to recognize that Milton expected his prose ...
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... course , tried to turn this appeal to reason to their own advantage against the law . This is , indeed , the tyrant's method of doing away with the law . To say that Milton was aware of the power of rhetoric is , of course , to give an ...
... course , tried to turn this appeal to reason to their own advantage against the law . This is , indeed , the tyrant's method of doing away with the law . To say that Milton was aware of the power of rhetoric is , of course , to give an ...
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... forbids the fruit of this tree . It is indeed a " rash " hand that , in the face either of moral wrong or of a reality whose principles are absolutely unknown , plucks the fruit . Of course , Satan's new reality , like the destination 150.
... forbids the fruit of this tree . It is indeed a " rash " hand that , in the face either of moral wrong or of a reality whose principles are absolutely unknown , plucks the fruit . Of course , Satan's new reality , like the destination 150.
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