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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... knowledge and Milton treats the congenial subject in his loftiest Platonic vein . I believe , my hearers , it is ... knowledge is altogether sterile and joyless . For who can contemplate and examine seriously the ideal form of things ...
... knowledge and Milton treats the congenial subject in his loftiest Platonic vein . I believe , my hearers , it is ... knowledge is altogether sterile and joyless . For who can contemplate and examine seriously the ideal form of things ...
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... knowledge to love and be like him . This knowledge is to be won by " orderly conning over the lower & visible creature . ” Well enough . But in Milton's assumption the patterns all exist , whether in Scripture or in the Greek and Roman ...
... knowledge to love and be like him . This knowledge is to be won by " orderly conning over the lower & visible creature . ” Well enough . But in Milton's assumption the patterns all exist , whether in Scripture or in the Greek and Roman ...
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... knowledge of physics , chemistry , astronomy naturally furnishes him abundance of material . There is a full discussion of the Copernican versus the Ptolomaic hypothesis in Book VIII . He alludes with precise knowledge to Galileo's ...
... knowledge of physics , chemistry , astronomy naturally furnishes him abundance of material . There is a full discussion of the Copernican versus the Ptolomaic hypothesis in Book VIII . He alludes with precise knowledge to Galileo's ...
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