John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and WritingsMacmillan, 1964 - 224 pages |
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Page 77
... ideal was the democratic and nonliturgical simplicity of the apostolic church as they saw it in the New Testament . This is the core of the matter in Milton's first tract of 1641 , as it had been during the previous eighty years , years ...
... ideal was the democratic and nonliturgical simplicity of the apostolic church as they saw it in the New Testament . This is the core of the matter in Milton's first tract of 1641 , as it had been during the previous eighty years , years ...
Page 90
... ideal of religious unity and world peace in- cluded a large concern with universal , compulsory , ele- mentary , and practical education ; he might be called a sort of religious John Dewey . Hartlib had been trans- lating and publishing ...
... ideal of religious unity and world peace in- cluded a large concern with universal , compulsory , ele- mentary , and practical education ; he might be called a sort of religious John Dewey . Hartlib had been trans- lating and publishing ...
Page 159
... ideal and nostalgic radiance , among them that most beautiful and poignant of all similes , which suggests both the fate of Eve and the transiency of all earthly beauty : Not that fair field Of Enna , where Prosérpine gathering flow'rs ...
... ideal and nostalgic radiance , among them that most beautiful and poignant of all similes , which suggests both the fate of Eve and the transiency of all earthly beauty : Not that fair field Of Enna , where Prosérpine gathering flow'rs ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
Copyright | |
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