A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1954 - 465 pages |
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Page 103
... king brought to trial , Milton was quite ready to adhere to the Republic and to join the cry for the king's deposition and death . The document in which he did so , the treatise Of the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates , " was , like his ...
... king brought to trial , Milton was quite ready to adhere to the Republic and to join the cry for the king's deposition and death . The document in which he did so , the treatise Of the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates , " was , like his ...
Page 107
... King's Book , which had ap- peared almost immediately after the king's death ( i . e . , in February , 1649 ) and was achieving an enormous circula- tion . The Eikon , or , to employ its subtitle , The True Por- traiture of his Sacred ...
... King's Book , which had ap- peared almost immediately after the king's death ( i . e . , in February , 1649 ) and was achieving an enormous circula- tion . The Eikon , or , to employ its subtitle , The True Por- traiture of his Sacred ...
Page 108
... king's sincerity , and the reliability of this charge has been vigorously maintained in a recent study.29 The balance of evidence is , however , strongly against it.30 In writing Eikonoklastes Milton drew heavily on Thomas May's History ...
... king's sincerity , and the reliability of this charge has been vigorously maintained in a recent study.29 The balance of evidence is , however , strongly against it.30 In writing Eikonoklastes Milton drew heavily on Thomas May's History ...
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PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 268 |
MILTONS STYLE AND VERSIFICATION | 293 |
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