The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 tian’s right to his own conscientious belief and practice against any would-be per- secutors ( ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 manifest, that a magistrate can hardly err in prohibiting and quite removing at least the publ ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 riages, burials, and interment is “wicked, accursed, Simoniacal and abominable” (299). Milton’ ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Now as then Milton has little understanding of and less sympathy for poor boys without family ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 the meannes wherin they were born” (305). This proposal indicates Milton’s as- sumption, share ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 carefully calculated appeals to various audiences, but the opening and closing pas- sages, pro ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Neither did they measure votes and counsels by the intentions of them that voted; knowing that ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 Good kings, Milton claims, seldom happen except in an elective monarchy. He also reiterates hi ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 “in much displeasure gave a king to the Israelites, and imputed it a sin to them that they sou ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 the supreme council holds is “not transferrd, but delegated only” (432). It must control the a ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 not having “many Sovranties united in one Commonwealth, but many Common- wealths under one uni ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 basely and besottedly to run their necks again into the yoke which they have broken, and prost ...

“Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 reject the idolatry and servility he saw as endemic to monarchy. In the sections apparently ad ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 12 “In Darknes, and with Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 In the years after the Restorat ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 abroad if occasion should offer. In Restoration England publication would have been impos ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 knew, as everyone did, the horrific details of those public executions for treason and he ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 regard for his learning and talents, and also from a sense that to punish this interna- t ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 seemed to promise. Six other regicides were to be punished by all means except death. The ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 Milton’s Defensio – more than three hundred pages of tiny print, in Latin, which dealt on ...

“With Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 protested that they were exorbitant. The incident is recorded by a parliamentary diarist: ...