Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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... hand ( Milton's term for his prose writing ) against human kingship , contradicted by the right hand of poetry in favor of divine kingship of the most absolute kind . This reading also seems truer to some of the facts of the poem in ...
... hand ( Milton's term for his prose writing ) against human kingship , contradicted by the right hand of poetry in favor of divine kingship of the most absolute kind . This reading also seems truer to some of the facts of the poem in ...
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... hand of autocratic domination ; this Hell is architecturally splendid beyond the manner of " Babel , and the works of Memphian kings " ( 1.694 ) , beyond " Babilon " and " great Alcairo " ( 1.717-18 ) . Just as barbarians seem to pour ...
... hand of autocratic domination ; this Hell is architecturally splendid beyond the manner of " Babel , and the works of Memphian kings " ( 1.694 ) , beyond " Babilon " and " great Alcairo " ( 1.717-18 ) . Just as barbarians seem to pour ...
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... hand , true goodness may naturally be embodied in splendor . This is the sort of conclusion that Leland Ryken arrived at in his Apocalyptic Vision in “ Paradise Lost . " Arguing from the theory of accommodation that Milton insisted ...
... hand , true goodness may naturally be embodied in splendor . This is the sort of conclusion that Leland Ryken arrived at in his Apocalyptic Vision in “ Paradise Lost . " Arguing from the theory of accommodation that Milton insisted ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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