A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 123
... attempted to secure toleration even for Jews , he never became an open champion of that complete religious freedom for ... attempt to regulate it by external force can do only harm . Milton's plea is , as it was in Areopagitica , for ...
... attempted to secure toleration even for Jews , he never became an open champion of that complete religious freedom for ... attempt to regulate it by external force can do only harm . Milton's plea is , as it was in Areopagitica , for ...
Page 339
... attempt to constitute a critical text of Paradise Lost according to the methods which , as a classical scholar , he had been accustomed to apply to ancient authors . Bentley made the unwarranted assumption that Milton's work had been ...
... attempt to constitute a critical text of Paradise Lost according to the methods which , as a classical scholar , he had been accustomed to apply to ancient authors . Bentley made the unwarranted assumption that Milton's work had been ...
Page 396
... attempting . It is easy to imagine a careless reader missing the slight ( but , for both rhythm and meaning , important ) emphasis on the pronoun . Milton's ear would have detected the blunder and attempted to save posterity from ...
... attempting . It is easy to imagine a careless reader missing the slight ( but , for both rhythm and meaning , important ) emphasis on the pronoun . Milton's ear would have detected the blunder and attempted to save posterity from ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Adam's ancient angels Areopagitica blank verse Book Cambridge Chorus Christ Christian church classical Columbia Edition Comus copy death Defense Diodati discussion divine divorce doctrine drama edition Edward Phillips eighteenth century elaborate elegy English epic evidence expression fall Fletcher Greek Heaven human idea Il Penseroso influence interest interpretation Italian Italy John Milton King L'Allegro later Latin learned letter liberty lines literary literature Lycidas manuscript masque Masson material ment mind modern moral nature original pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained parallel Parliament passage passion Penseroso philosophy poem poet poet's poetic poetry political printed prose Psalms published Puritan reason Reformation religious Renaissance Samson Agonistes Satan says Scripture Shakespeare Smectymnuus sonnets Spenser spirit statement style suggestion theme theological thought Tillyard tion ton's tract tradition translation University verse volume writing written