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The most important of these , excepting the poetry itself , are given as fully as possible in the ensuing pages . Of the individual documents from which citation has been made , Milton's Second Defense of the English Pea ple contains ...
The most important of these , excepting the poetry itself , are given as fully as possible in the ensuing pages . Of the individual documents from which citation has been made , Milton's Second Defense of the English Pea ple contains ...
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The following parallel , not hitherto noted , may be given as a signal illustration of the way in which a recollected scene from Spenser might guide Milton's feeling and poetic expression where one would little expect it .
The following parallel , not hitherto noted , may be given as a signal illustration of the way in which a recollected scene from Spenser might guide Milton's feeling and poetic expression where one would little expect it .
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To return to Milton's personal motivations , we should remember , first , that although he had given up or all but given up the church as a career , he was determined not only to be a scholar and a poet but to exercise an influence by ...
To return to Milton's personal motivations , we should remember , first , that although he had given up or all but given up the church as a career , he was determined not only to be a scholar and a poet but to exercise an influence by ...
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