A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 145
... Passion contains a specific reference to Vida's Latin poem , The Christiad , which , with Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and the religious verse of his brother Phineas and of Sylvester , must be counted among the sources of Milton's ...
... Passion contains a specific reference to Vida's Latin poem , The Christiad , which , with Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and the religious verse of his brother Phineas and of Sylvester , must be counted among the sources of Milton's ...
Page 233
... passion in the soul of man and a conviction as to the importance of knowledge as an instrument of virtue . The essential fall of man occurs when passion predominates over reason . Thus the angel instructs Adam in all that it is ...
... passion in the soul of man and a conviction as to the importance of knowledge as an instrument of virtue . The essential fall of man occurs when passion predominates over reason . Thus the angel instructs Adam in all that it is ...
Page 350
... passion over reason . The checks put upon his own freedom of action and speech confirm his passion for and theory of liberty . The final thwarting of his hopes for the Commonwealth drives him to search for the causes of failure in human ...
... passion over reason . The checks put upon his own freedom of action and speech confirm his passion for and theory of liberty . The final thwarting of his hopes for the Commonwealth drives him to search for the causes of failure in human ...
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