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... moral insistence on activism which necessitates the drama of Comus's attempted seduction of the Lady . Indeed , at ... moral world vision to which he subscribes . The central philosophical premise upon which the whole poetic ...
... moral insistence on activism which necessitates the drama of Comus's attempted seduction of the Lady . Indeed , at ... moral world vision to which he subscribes . The central philosophical premise upon which the whole poetic ...
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... moral problem with which the three longer poems are concerned . Thus , whilst the general moral didacticism of Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes follows from Milton's generally rationalist world vision , just as ...
... moral problem with which the three longer poems are concerned . Thus , whilst the general moral didacticism of Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes follows from Milton's generally rationalist world vision , just as ...
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... moral universe of Paradise Regained , one would , of course , be obliged to conclude that Samson's moral posture is by far the superior of the two . Now this is , in fact , extremely significant : Samson has attained , at the very ...
... moral universe of Paradise Regained , one would , of course , be obliged to conclude that Samson's moral posture is by far the superior of the two . Now this is , in fact , extremely significant : Samson has attained , at the very ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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