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John Milton’s career as a writer of prose and poetry spans three distinct eras: Stuart England; the Civil War (1642-1648) and Interregnum, including the Commonwealth (1649-1653) and Protectorate (1654-1660); and the Restoration. Milton’s chief polemical prose was written in the decades of the 1640s and...
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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost. : Book 9 (1674 version) By John Milton. NO more of talk where God or Angel Guest. With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd. To sit indulgent, and with him partake. Rural repast, permitting him the while. Venial discourse unblam'd: I now must change. Those Notes to Tragic; foul distrust, and breach.
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