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... barbarian . Royalists saw the revolutionaries as the forces of chaos , who , like visitations of Huns or Saracens , were treading down the ancient civilization and traditions of England into the same pulp as generations of their ...
... barbarian . Royalists saw the revolutionaries as the forces of chaos , who , like visitations of Huns or Saracens , were treading down the ancient civilization and traditions of England into the same pulp as generations of their ...
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... barbarian inundations that had engulfed even the Mediterranean Sea , as though a sea could drown a sea , and by the reference to the Maeotic Sea ( the source of the barbarian invasions ) our atten- tion is drawn to this purpose : we ...
... barbarian inundations that had engulfed even the Mediterranean Sea , as though a sea could drown a sea , and by the reference to the Maeotic Sea ( the source of the barbarian invasions ) our atten- tion is drawn to this purpose : we ...
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... barbarian consuming barbarian , reciprocally sealing those jaws . Finally , in Book 11 , Milton provided for us , and Michael for Adam , a vista of all the tyrannies of earth " and their glory " ( 11.384 ) , a phrase full of irony and ...
... barbarian consuming barbarian , reciprocally sealing those jaws . Finally , in Book 11 , Milton provided for us , and Michael for Adam , a vista of all the tyrannies of earth " and their glory " ( 11.384 ) , a phrase full of irony and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's allusion anointing army barbarian barbarous Beelzebub Book Caesar Chaos chariot Christ Christian Christopher Hill civil coronation Cromwell Death Defence divine earth earthly Eikon Basiliké Eikonoklastes emperor emphasized empire England English Revolution epic epic similes Eve's evil exaltation fall fallen angels father feudal glory God's gold Heaven heavenly Hell human king ibid imperial implied John Milton justice King Charles king's kingship liberty London Lord majesty Milton's God mind Moloch monarchy moral nature Nimrod Paradise Lost pattern Persians Pharaoh poet poet's poetic poetry political present prose Psalm Puritan Raphael reader rebel rebellion regicide reign relationship Renaissance ritual Roman royal Royalist rule Satan scourge sense simile Solomon speech spirit structure Stuart subjects sultan symbolism thee thir thou throne tion triumph triumphal Turkish Turks tyranny tyrant University Press Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos virtue vision Yale