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... virtue was civic and racial rather than spiritual , ag- gressive and military rather than pacific . Renaissance under- standing of the disturbing potentialities in these classical concepts of virtue , honor , and glory ( defined 110 ...
... virtue was civic and racial rather than spiritual , ag- gressive and military rather than pacific . Renaissance under- standing of the disturbing potentialities in these classical concepts of virtue , honor , and glory ( defined 110 ...
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... virtue " by " hazard . " The honor normally chosen to celebrate this effort on behalf of the Roman state was a triumph , which even the less ferocious em- perors like Claudius aspired to deserve and enjoy as proof of the validity of ...
... virtue " by " hazard . " The honor normally chosen to celebrate this effort on behalf of the Roman state was a triumph , which even the less ferocious em- perors like Claudius aspired to deserve and enjoy as proof of the validity of ...
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... virtue of its simplicity . But its simplicity is the very thing that makes the theory unsuitable to convey the rich com- plexity of our experience of Milton's poem and its relation to his political assertions . Milton does not include ...
... virtue of its simplicity . But its simplicity is the very thing that makes the theory unsuitable to convey the rich com- plexity of our experience of Milton's poem and its relation to his political assertions . Milton does not include ...
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