“The pretious life-blood of a master spirit”
Thomas Hollis and the spirit and body of John Milton
Article outline
- I.Service
- II.Milton the matchless hero
- III.The Poster-boy for Whig liberty
- IV.Astonished by Milton’s Of Education
- V.(Mis)reading Milton’s Areopagitica
- VI.Hollis and Milton
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Notes
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Bibliography
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