Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... possible to what I esteem my best and richest possession . While Milton hoped that • • " ( C.E. , XIV , 9 ) . his theological work would be widely received , however , he knew that his political treatises had already reached a wide and ...
... possible to what I esteem my best and richest possession . While Milton hoped that • • " ( C.E. , XIV , 9 ) . his theological work would be widely received , however , he knew that his political treatises had already reached a wide and ...
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... possible to himself , their governor , to Sin and Death , the agents of his rule : " Thou hast achiev'd our liberty , confin'd / Within Hell Gates till now " ( X , 368-369 ) . Similarly , though Satan has assumed dictatorship of Hell ...
... possible to himself , their governor , to Sin and Death , the agents of his rule : " Thou hast achiev'd our liberty , confin'd / Within Hell Gates till now " ( X , 368-369 ) . Similarly , though Satan has assumed dictatorship of Hell ...
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... possible to judge a ruler by the ends to which he strives to lead his people ; it is likewise possible to judge a people by the ends to which they allow themselves to be led . This is what Milton meant when in Eikonoklastes he drew the ...
... possible to judge a ruler by the ends to which he strives to lead his people ; it is likewise possible to judge a people by the ends to which they allow themselves to be led . This is what Milton meant when in Eikonoklastes he drew the ...
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