Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of LiteratureHaskell House, 1964 - 222 pages |
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... Galileo in 1642 , and although Copernicus had asserted the two - fold motion of the earth a century before , the new Cosmogony was not widely understood , still less universally accepted . Newton , although born in the year of Galileo's ...
... Galileo in 1642 , and although Copernicus had asserted the two - fold motion of the earth a century before , the new Cosmogony was not widely understood , still less universally accepted . Newton , although born in the year of Galileo's ...
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... Galileo must have made the events of the murder of Savonarola very realistic . Such a nature as Milton's cannot have failed to see in the sincerity of the preacher of St. Mark's , the ideal Christian man and leader . As he stood in ...
... Galileo must have made the events of the murder of Savonarola very realistic . Such a nature as Milton's cannot have failed to see in the sincerity of the preacher of St. Mark's , the ideal Christian man and leader . As he stood in ...
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... Galileo , whom he travelled to Italy to see . Whilst at Florence it is probable that he came into touch with the works of Benedetti Bonmattei , which may have given him the first stimulus towards the production of an heroic poem . In ...
... Galileo , whom he travelled to Italy to see . Whilst at Florence it is probable that he came into touch with the works of Benedetti Bonmattei , which may have given him the first stimulus towards the production of an heroic poem . In ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR | 1 |
MILTONS KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC By WILLIAM HENRY | 11 |
A NOTE ON MILTONS SHORTER POEMS By ERNEST | 23 |
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