Selected ProseAlthough John Milton is best known for his poems such as Paradise Lost, his prose works, including Areopagitica, The Tenure of Kings, and The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, are important in their own right. In this selection of Milton's prose, C.A. Patrides presents the best possible texts of complete works in a format designed to enable students to understand Milton the thinker as well as to judge for themselves the achievements of Milton the artist in prose. First published in 1974, C.A. Patrides 's edition of Milton's prose has proved invaluable to students and scholars of Renaissance literature because it includes mostly the complete texts of Milton's prose works. Now, in this new and updated edition, Patrides has revised his introduction and his bibliography to reflect advances in Milton scholarship in the past ten years. In addition, the selections have been expanded to include passages from Milton's theological treatise De doctrina Christiana. |
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... hope to disswade the intelligent and equal auditor , if I can but say successfully that which in this exigent behoovs me , although I would be heard only , if it might be , by the elegant & learned reader , to whom principally for a ...
... hope , others with confidence of what they have to speake . And me perhaps each of these dispositions , as the sub- ject was whereon I enter'd , 1 may have at other times variously affected ; and likely might in these formost ...
... hope it never will , these ignorant assertors in thir own art will have prov'd themselves more and more , not to be Protestant Divines , whose constant judgement in this point they have so audaciously 99. According to Judges 1 : 4-7 ...
Contents
An Outline of Miltons Life | 11 |
From The Reason of ChurchGovernment 1642 | 49 |
From An Apology for Smectym nuus 1642 | 61 |
Copyright | |
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