The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 On April 19/29 Dury wrote Hartlib again, citing another witness – “Mr. Hotton who is a fierc ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 Protectorate. Colonel Robert Overton had openly declared his opposition and was suspected of ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 by Heart,” commenting that it scales “the Height of the Roman Eloquence” with its many figur ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 grace accept criticism from his friends. As for poetry, Milton may have noted that unsold co ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 IV.2, 869). He sets out in exact detail the symptoms that appeared ten years before, three y ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 tion on the plosive consonant “d” we are forced to read slowly and with great emphasis, inde ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 them. They surpass him in style and eloquence as he is writing in a foreign tongue, but “I [ ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 breach of promise was not proved.^146 The last installment of More’s story is the most inacc ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 I have borne witness, I might almost say I have erected a monument that will not soon pass a ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 He was a soldier well-versed in self-knowledge, and whatever enemy lay within – vain hopes, ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 the same eyes. And yet they have as much the appearance of being uninjured, and are as clear ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 the cause of the English people and thus of Liberty herself” (549). He makes his blindness p ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 [N]othing is more natural, nothing more just, nothing more useful or more advanta- geous to ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 plagues of kings.” His long digression on Christina makes her illustrate the principle that ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 this great confidence reposed in you.... Honor too what foreign nations think and say of us, ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 I would have you leave the church to the church... and not permit two powers, utterly divers ...

“For the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 servitude precludes devotion to liberty and the nation’s liberators. Finally, in an eloquent ...

10 “I... Still Bear Up and Steer Right Onward” 1654–1658 During the remaining years of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate, Milton’s ...

“I... Steer Right Onward” 1654–1658 work for Cromwell, he could blame the policies he disliked chiefly on the unstable political ...