John Milton, EnglishmanChrist among the doctors - Academic exercise - Pastoral interlude - Italian journey - Paradise sort - Deeds above heroic - Heavenly muse - Milton Agonistes - Fair dismission___ |
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He trusted too much , however , to the efficacy of an elite leadership , and a leadership trained in too exclusively a moral and intellectual ideal . He did not understand the actual workings of human personality and therefore did not ...
He trusted too much , however , to the efficacy of an elite leadership , and a leadership trained in too exclusively a moral and intellectual ideal . He did not understand the actual workings of human personality and therefore did not ...
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He congratulates himself that his theme henceforth is merely human . He remembers that he is fallen on evil days and evil tongues . His imaginative world is no longer quite impregnable , for he hears the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus ...
He congratulates himself that his theme henceforth is merely human . He remembers that he is fallen on evil days and evil tongues . His imaginative world is no longer quite impregnable , for he hears the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus ...
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His fear is now that the age of such immortal achievements is passed , that the northern countries do not permit a full flowering of the human genius , that he is himself too old . All this he maturely and rationally admits as heavily ...
His fear is now that the age of such immortal achievements is passed , that the northern countries do not permit a full flowering of the human genius , that he is himself too old . All this he maturely and rationally admits as heavily ...
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| Title | John Milton, Englishman Bonanza paperback |
| Author | James Holly Hanford |
| Publisher | Crown Publishers, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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