Milton, Man and ThinkerL. Macveagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 363 páginas |
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... king of Greece , Milton did not believe himself worthy of a commission in the Civil War.2 This legitimate pride , in the full and fair knowledge of his capacities , as a representative of mankind , is the cen- ter of Milton's ...
... king of Greece , Milton did not believe himself worthy of a commission in the Civil War.2 This legitimate pride , in the full and fair knowledge of his capacities , as a representative of mankind , is the cen- ter of Milton's ...
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... King in all things was taught ; Laud and his Church became a powerful instrument at the disposal of the Crown . — On the other hand , a spirit of toleration reigned in the King's party , both as to ideas and morals . As long as you ...
... King in all things was taught ; Laud and his Church became a powerful instrument at the disposal of the Crown . — On the other hand , a spirit of toleration reigned in the King's party , both as to ideas and morals . As long as you ...
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... King's plans of personal domination perhaps even more than his Church policy , took their opportunity and obliged Charles to call the Parliament of 1640 , which was to become the Long Parliament . This Parliament first attacked the ...
... King's plans of personal domination perhaps even more than his Church policy , took their opportunity and obliged Charles to call the Parliament of 1640 , which was to become the Long Parliament . This Parliament first attacked the ...
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... King- dom of God . 3 Milton fully shared that hope , that pride , that enthusi- asm . And besides his high idea of the English people , he had his high idea of himself . He believed himself capable of real and decisive action ; he felt ...
... King- dom of God . 3 Milton fully shared that hope , that pride , that enthusi- asm . And besides his high idea of the English people , he had his high idea of himself . He believed himself capable of real and decisive action ; he felt ...
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... comes the struggle over the King's trial and execution . Milton publishes in 1649 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Eikonoklastes . Then come the three Defences in Latin : Defensio pro populo Angli- 30 MILTON : MAN AND THINKER.
... comes the struggle over the King's trial and execution . Milton publishes in 1649 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Eikonoklastes . Then come the three Defences in Latin : Defensio pro populo Angli- 30 MILTON : MAN AND THINKER.
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Adam angels Areopagitica Augustine Azazel blind body Book of Enoch called cause Chapter chastity Christ Christian Church Comus conception created creation creatures death Defensio desire destiny divine divorce doctrine dogma earth eternal evil expression Fall Father feeling flesh Fludd give glory God's harmony hath Heaven Hence Holy human Ibid intellectual Irenæus JAMES HOLLY John Milton justice Kabbalah kabbalistic king liberty light living man's mankind marriage Masson matter Milton Milton's ideas Milton's mind Milton's thought mortal Mortalists Mutschmann nature Neo-Platonism ontology opinion original pamphlets pantheism Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage passion poem poet political prelates Presbyterians pride Prose Puritan reason regeneration religion religious S. B. LILJEGREN Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture seems sensuality Smectymnuus soul speak spirit substance Tertullian Tetrachordon thee theory things thou tion Treatise triumph truth tyrant virtue whole wisdom woman Zohar
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Página 240 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 184 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Página 74 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 262 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Página 169 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 76 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 11 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions: till coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that would retch, he must either straight perjure, or split his faith; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Página 215 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Página 292 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed...
Página 214 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.