Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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... references to and quotations from the poem . For Milton's prose works I have largely referred to the Yale edition , Complete ... reference has been made to volumes 4 , 5 , and 6 of Lord Somers's Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts ...
... references to and quotations from the poem . For Milton's prose works I have largely referred to the Yale edition , Complete ... reference has been made to volumes 4 , 5 , and 6 of Lord Somers's Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts ...
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... reference to their " gay religions full of pomp and gold , " they almost fall into the poet's time , for Milton's harsh and vivid attacks on the prelacy in the earlier prose dwelt upon " the luxurious and ribald feasts of Baal - peor ...
... reference to their " gay religions full of pomp and gold , " they almost fall into the poet's time , for Milton's harsh and vivid attacks on the prelacy in the earlier prose dwelt upon " the luxurious and ribald feasts of Baal - peor ...
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... point of emphasizing the generally agreed derivation of Nimrod's name from the Hebrew for rebellious . 28 He also made Nimrod claim " second sovereignty " from God ( 12.35 ) , a clear reference to the royalist Kings of This World , 39.
... point of emphasizing the generally agreed derivation of Nimrod's name from the Hebrew for rebellious . 28 He also made Nimrod claim " second sovereignty " from God ( 12.35 ) , a clear reference to the royalist Kings of This World , 39.
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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