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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Milton John"”.
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Milton and the Quakers
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
… consideration of the puzzling banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton intends the feast to be a temptation to glory …
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Comus and the seventeenth century masque.
… Paradise Lost; others think that it is some of Milton's worst. This first problem is the one which primarily concerns us here. Is Comus a masque at all? If so, wherein does it resemble its predecessors and wherein does it differ from them? These questions could be answered in either of two ways: …
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Studies of the Expression of Chloroperoxidase: Isolation and Sequence of a Chloroperoxidase Cdna Clone (complementary-Dna)
The fungus Caldariomyces fumago secretes the enzyme chloroperoxidase at levels exceeding 400 milligrams per liter of culture medium when fructose is provided as the carbon source. Harnessing the cellular machinery which produces chloroperoxidase could provide a powerful method for the production …
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
… Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, Milton clearly defines fame in Christian terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. Chapter 1 traces Milton's …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
John Milton's Paradise Lost engages the argument advanced by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher …
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Framing Eve in "Paradise Lost"
Although John Milton's Paradise Lost presses readers towards fashioning Eve as a temptress, the text simultaneously invites an interpretation Eve as a composition of active goodness. Readers, however, tend to accept inherited cultural stereotypes and ideological constructs of Eve as a temptress …
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
John Milton begins his Second Defence of the English People by stressing the universal importance of gratitude: "In the whole life and estate of man the first duty is to be grateful to God." Peter Medine has shown the prominence of gratitude in Paradise Lost, but scholars have not fully appreciated …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… and conceptions of exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation explores the complex framing and subsequent deconstruction …
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An Account of the Production of Milton's Comus at Southwest Texas Teachers College
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… Christian Humanism on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was …
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Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… and Restoration—Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton—were engaged in constructing this Hermetic mode of thinking to illustrate individuals' ability and responsibility for 'saving' themselves through the gnosis of self-discovery, the gnosis that emphasized living with and in the presence of God. …