An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton. Джон Мильтон

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       On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises

       COMUS

       THE PERSONS

       LYCIDAS

       SAMSON AGONISTES

       OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM WHICH IS CALLED TRAGEDY

       THE ARGUMENT

       THE PERSONS

       SAMSON AGONISTES

       NOTES

       A Defence of the People of England

       The Second Defence of the People of England

       To Charles Diodati

       To Alexander Gill, Jr. (Familiar Letters , No. III.)

       To Thomas Young. (Familiar Letters , No. IV.)

       To Charles Diodati, making a Stay in the Country

       Ad Patrem

       An English Letter to a Friend

       To Alexander Gill, Jr. (Familiar Letters , No. V.)

       To Charles Diodati. (Familiar Letters , No. VI.)

       To Benedetto Bonmattei of Florence. (Familiar Letters , No. VIII.)

       Mansus

       Areopagitica

       To Lucas Holstenius. (Familiar Letters , No. IX.)

       Epitaphium Damonis

       Of Reformation in England

       Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence, etc.

       The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty

       To Carlo Dati. (Familiar Letters , No. X.)

       On his Blindness

       To Leonard Philaras. (Familiar Letters , No. XII.)

       To Henry Oldenburg. (Familiar Letters , No. XIV.)

       To Leonard Philaras. (Familiar Letters , No. XV.)

       To Cyriac Skinner

       On his deceased wife

       To Emeric Bigot. (Familiar Letters , No. XXI.)

       Autobiographic passages in the Paradise Lost

       Letter to Peter Heimbach. (Familiar Letters , No. XXXI.)

       Passages in which Milton's Idea of True Liberty is Set Forth

       Comus

       Lycidas

       Samson Agonistes

INTRODUCTION

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      Milton's prose works are perhaps not read, at the present day, to the extent demanded by their great and varied merits, among which may be named their uncompromising advocacy of whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report; their eloquent assertion of the inalienable rights of men to a wholesome exercise of their intellectual faculties, the right to determine for themselves, with all the aids they can command, what is truth and what is error; the right freely to communicate their honest thoughts from one to another—rights which constitute the only sure and lasting foundation of individual, civil, political, and religious liberty; the ever-conscious sentiment which they exhibit, on the part of the poet, of an entire dependence upon 'that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases'; the ever-present consciousness they exhibit of that stewardship which СКАЧАТЬ