The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

Notes to Chapter 1 doctors of the Gospels and was preserved uncorrupted, or else restored to its pristine wholeness long before ...

Notes to Chapter 1 2.1.2: “I saw not better sport these seven years’ day,” and Variorum 2.2, 482–3. I quote the text from TM. 51 ...

Notes to Chapter 1 stirred up by the pope and Spain; the counsels of the Spanish “are again devising for the Waldensians of the ...

Notes to Chapter 1 in the whole body of the people adhering to the cause “and by them derived unto their successive Representati ...

Notes to Chapter 1 88 The Registers of St. Mary Aldermary, London... 1558 to 1754, Publications of the Harleian Society, LXI (Lo ...

Notes to Chapter 1 A letter (October 22) to the King of Sweden urges payment of the arrears owed a professional soldier who has ...

Notes to Chapter 1 107 Five brief letters of the same date introduce and bespeak protection for Jephson from the rulers of Brand ...

Notes to Chapter 1 praise of republicanism; Milton had engaged with Salmasius over just this interpreta- tive ambiguity: see cha ...

Notes to Chapter 1 sought justice for an English captain being defrauded of his ship and goods in a Livorno court; another (Augu ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Discabineted In Political and Polemical Aphorisms, Grounded on Authority, and Experience; and illustrated wit ...

Notes to Chapter 1 155 The quatrain echoes lines from Euripides, Alcestis, 1,136, 1,117, 1,144–6. 156 The point is not that Kath ...

Notes to Chapter 1 sponsored newsbooks published several petitions, e.g. from Northampton, Southamp- ton, Cumberland, and Stamfo ...

Notes to Chapter 1 19 Wall, an erstwhile student of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, wrote from Caversham. The original of his lette ...

Notes to Chapter 1 29 On their first day of business (May 9) William Prynne and a few others secluded in Pride’s Purge took seat ...

Notes to Chapter 1 38 For example, 1 Timothy 5:18; 1 Corinthians 9:11, 13–14; Galatians 6:6. The transfer of tithes (as God’s po ...

Notes to Chapter 1 47 In Aphorisms Political (London, 1659), nos. 37 and 38, 4–5, Harrington paraphrases Milton, but does not me ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Army (London, 1659, c. October 25); and The Grand Concernments of England ensured by a constant Succession of ...

Notes to Chapter 1 67 David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627–1660 (Cambridge, 1999), ...

Notes to Chapter 1 78 In a published letter to the army regiments, A Letter from the Lord General Monck... To the several and re ...

Notes to Chapter 1 and powerful hands of some man, or more, who in that particular must be, more than Heroes” – leaving little q ...