Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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... throne beside Satan's towering throne in Pandemonium , the difference in dimension would be so colossal that the Lilliputian human king would diminish to the point of virtual disappearance . The massive and baroque outbursts of scale in ...
... throne beside Satan's towering throne in Pandemonium , the difference in dimension would be so colossal that the Lilliputian human king would diminish to the point of virtual disappearance . The massive and baroque outbursts of scale in ...
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... throne : not to be a king . The throne speaks for itself : Satan does not , quite , and appears in the character of imperator in the old sense , or dictator " in public extremity , " rather than as a per- petual occupant . The poet's ...
... throne : not to be a king . The throne speaks for itself : Satan does not , quite , and appears in the character of imperator in the old sense , or dictator " in public extremity , " rather than as a per- petual occupant . The poet's ...
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... throne to glittering masque theatricals , his followers to an anti - masque mob , with a travesty dance as " they roll'd in heaps : ( 10.558 ) , and a nauseous travesty banquet of bitter fruits , 20 the perspectives are reduced if you ...
... throne to glittering masque theatricals , his followers to an anti - masque mob , with a travesty dance as " they roll'd in heaps : ( 10.558 ) , and a nauseous travesty banquet of bitter fruits , 20 the perspectives are reduced if you ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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