The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 differences. The army remained the chief sticking point. Many peers and several members of th ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 tines, and Politicians. Book I develops an argument against the Antiquarians, those who justi ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 have the instructing and disciplining of Gods people by whose full and free Election they are ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 versions of this fable the people and their representatives are divided into societal estates ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 ... joyn your invisible might to doe worthy, and Godlike deeds” (597). For the present, he im ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 chapters to engaging the tracts of Bishops Hall and Ussher,^95 and otherwise makes a broad ar ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 would reject Milton’s argument – anticipating Areopagitica – that religious contro- versy its ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 her bottomlesse gorge may be satisfi’d with the blood of the Kings daughter the Church; and m ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 known and Hall and Ussher were older, established figures. But it is more than convention. As ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 them, that every where they call it a burden.... But when God commands to take the trumpet an ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 episodic plot like Ariosto’s, beginning ab ovo. He is still committed to a national subject, ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 discreet our minds.” He also calls for martial exercises to “inure and harden our bodies... t ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and foreswearing. Howsoever thus Church-o ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 6 “Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 In the Second Defense Milton claims that his ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 ceived his sexual and marital experiences. He wrote nothing so charged with un- conscio ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 couple’s becoming one flesh.^5 In addition, his poignant appeal to human experi- ence a ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 tion to her husband probably led him to suppose that, once married, Mary would be eager ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 of some experience, had the advantage over parliament’s troops – militia and vol- untee ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 Ruth.”^17 She endures with “pity and ruth,” though at some emotional cost, those friend ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 know “the dayes / Wherin your Father flourisht,” save through Margaret’s praise of his ...