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Page 33
... poet of 7.32-33 — another to be confu- sion's involuntary victim . Michael , whose major message to Adam is the necessity of temperance in a fallen world and the difficult but always possible sustaining of order in soul and state ...
... poet of 7.32-33 — another to be confu- sion's involuntary victim . Michael , whose major message to Adam is the necessity of temperance in a fallen world and the difficult but always possible sustaining of order in soul and state ...
Page 128
... poet was a covert Royalist all along.2 It also underlies the opposite ( Empso- nian ) point of view , which holds that Milton's republicanism was so strong that he was only pretending , or trying , to love Christ the King in Paradise ...
... poet was a covert Royalist all along.2 It also underlies the opposite ( Empso- nian ) point of view , which holds that Milton's republicanism was so strong that he was only pretending , or trying , to love Christ the King in Paradise ...
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... poet smiles at the tremendous effort put in by human society to such little effect , particularly in his bestowing of the ironic perhaps to the old emblem of the provi- dential ant culled from the bestiaries . More seriously , the poet ...
... poet smiles at the tremendous effort put in by human society to such little effect , particularly in his bestowing of the ironic perhaps to the old emblem of the provi- dential ant culled from the bestiaries . More seriously , the poet ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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