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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... human nature . It is due rather to his assumptions regarding the content of those " unwritten or at least un- constraining laws of virtuous education , religious and civil nurture " on which he relies to raise the minds of men above the ...
... human nature . It is due rather to his assumptions regarding the content of those " unwritten or at least un- constraining laws of virtuous education , religious and civil nurture " on which he relies to raise the minds of men above the ...
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... 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 and his revellers . He recalls not now Homer , renowned ...
... 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 and his revellers . He recalls not now Homer , renowned ...
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... human genius , that he is himself too old . All this he maturely and rationally admits as heavily and perhaps ... humanity is ground to dust . Adam , on the other hand , is man . He loves , he hates , he fears , he worships . If he is a ...
... human genius , that he is himself too old . All this he maturely and rationally admits as heavily and perhaps ... humanity is ground to dust . Adam , on the other hand , is man . He loves , he hates , he fears , he worships . If he is a ...
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