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... Nimrod workmanship being labeled " Ridiculous " in an exquisitely bathetic and derisive polysyllable ( 12.62 ) . The Nimrod allusion is paramount and crucial in Milton's unfolding of his analysis of the descent of the satanic kingship ...
... Nimrod workmanship being labeled " Ridiculous " in an exquisitely bathetic and derisive polysyllable ( 12.62 ) . The Nimrod allusion is paramount and crucial in Milton's unfolding of his analysis of the descent of the satanic kingship ...
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... Nimrod built his rule upon conquest . Nimrod was commonly taken by republicans as offering a disgraceful precedent for Charles's activities in his kingdom . The lawyer John Cook , piqued by the king's tactics at his trial , which ...
... Nimrod built his rule upon conquest . Nimrod was commonly taken by republicans as offering a disgraceful precedent for Charles's activities in his kingdom . The lawyer John Cook , piqued by the king's tactics at his trial , which ...
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... Nimrod allegorically ( 12.36-37 ) . In a sense , names do not mat- ter where these rebellious evil figures are concerned : they are denied individuality because evil , properly speaking , has none . Moloch , Dagon ( " one / Who mourned ...
... Nimrod allegorically ( 12.36-37 ) . In a sense , names do not mat- ter where these rebellious evil figures are concerned : they are denied individuality because evil , properly speaking , has none . Moloch , Dagon ( " one / Who mourned ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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