The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 become a staunch royalist), and no letter from Wotton addressing Milton as an unknown, novice ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 position. They call down God’s vengeance on the prideful wicked and the furious foes that – no ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Since Milton’s state papers came into his hands, he may have been the amanuensis who prepared ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 and one added line in three other places. Also, the Arguments were revised to suit the new arr ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 offered a potent rejoinder.^101 The book is a nicely printed octavo, though not so handsome as ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 ture sought to contain by rhyme. He brings the issue home to Dryden (Bayes) in the concluding ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 four books, 2,070 blank-verse lines. Contemporary readers were no doubt sur- prised, as some m ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By p ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 prophetic vision in which the hero, instead of viewing his own destined kingdom as Aeneas does ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 When his fierce thunder drove us to the deep; / Who this is we must learn” (1.89– 91). Jesus’s ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 presume the classical notion of history as cyclical repetition – what has been must be again – ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the World, to teach his final will, And sends his Spi ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 dispense with them before the appointed time. Also, though presented as nature’s free offering ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Holding up Judas Maccabaeus as a model of zeal and duty, Satan goads Jesus to seize his kingdo ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 May bring them back repentant and sincere, And at their passing cleave the Assyrian flood, Whe ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 The tree seems to refer to the power of his spiritual kingdom to transform all the earth; the ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 the highly refined sensory delights of his pastoral retirement, Aristotle as the teacher of a ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 by presumption if he casts himself down expecting divine rescue. But as he calmly maintains th ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 the Psalmist, as, like them, Samson seeks to understand God’s ways to him.^123 By such changes ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 encapsulated in the drama’s final line: “Calm of mind, all passion spent.” He also changes the ...