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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Page 91
... England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad , while my fellow - citizens were fighting for liberty at home . The news which turned him back was of events connected with the resistance of ...
... England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad , while my fellow - citizens were fighting for liberty at home . The news which turned him back was of events connected with the resistance of ...
Page 98
... England . Diodati was , of course , a Calvinist and a maintainer of the Presbyterian theocracy which flourished at Geneva above all other places . Milton was shortly to advocate such a system , though not for long . His acquaintance ...
... England . Diodati was , of course , a Calvinist and a maintainer of the Presbyterian theocracy which flourished at Geneva above all other places . Milton was shortly to advocate such a system , though not for long . His acquaintance ...
Page 263
... England " a blow from which it had never recovered . Outwardly , Puritanism had involved England in a series of wars such as would have been impossible under the pacifistic policy of Elizabeth ; internally , it had brutalized the people ...
... England " a blow from which it had never recovered . Outwardly , Puritanism had involved England in a series of wars such as would have been impossible under the pacifistic policy of Elizabeth ; internally , it had brutalized the people ...
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