The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 time he persistently sought out, visited, and wrote to every influential person he co ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 me; finally, without doubt, comes my shame at having nothing to tell you about your b ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 probably lost on Mylius, that the document was substantially as Mylius wrote it thoug ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 age.^156 The next day he wrote his “most esteemed Herman” that he did not know the re ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 In Eikonoklastes (c. October 6, 1649) Milton faced an almost impossible task: to disp ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 me chos’n or affected,” and was finished “leasurely” (339) amidst other duties. He ha ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 ment of mind in the people I must confess I cannot willingly ascribe to the natural d ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 “Law in a Free Nation hath bin ever public reason, the enacted reason of a Parlament” ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 posed sanctity is mere “Stage-work” (530): like many tyrants he wears a “Saints vizar ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 king as a plagiarist of others’ prayers, so deficient in piety that even when prepari ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 Justice with prophetic, apocalyptic resonance.^175 Linking the justice realized in th ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 My discourse, indeed, will be of matters neither small nor mean: a king in all his po ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 with judgment and profit,” and has “never tasted a drop of honest scholarship” (338). ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 Also, Milton now finds much more evidence in the gospels of the divine preference for ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 monarchy has been nearly universal by pointing to the United Provinces as a flour- is ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 ity whose excessive wealth and luxury often leads them to abnegate those duties, but ...

“The So-called Council of State” 1649–1652 Milton’s peroration is addressed, not to Europe, but to “all Englishmen.” It of- fers ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 9 “Tireless... for the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 Milton was at least somewhat prepared for ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 disestablishment. Because the Defensio Secunda includes extensive passages of auto- biograph ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 by stages also took over some of Weckherlin’s responsibilities in regard to foreign affairs ...