!) John Milton Flashcards
Liberty of conscience ‘above all other…
things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘The gift of…
freedom to be his own chooser’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘who ever knew
truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘forth his reasons…
as it were a battle ranged’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘to make the…
fittest to choose, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘that which purifies…
us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘despair not of…
[God’s] final pardon’ (Samson Antagonistes - 1671)
‘their human…
countenance…is changed/into some brutish form’ (Comus - 1634)
‘manacle the native…
liberty of mankind’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
Who, in the Ready and Easy Way, are dependent on custom to make their decisions?
‘sluggards’ and the ‘unmanly’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘spiritual power…
and civil… the bounds of either sword to thee we owe’ (To Sir Henry Vane - 1652)
‘to bind our souls…
with secular chains (To Cromwell - 1652)
‘New-Presbyter is…
but old priest writ large’ (On the New Forcers - c.1646)
‘the power of Kings…
and Magistrates is… committed to them in trust from the People’ (On the Tenure - 1649)
‘the King and…
magistrate holds his authority of the people’ (On the Tenure - 1649)
‘knowing men will
easily agree with me, that a free Commonwealth… is by far the best government’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Milton believed that free people ‘will elect…
good and virtuous people’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘ther may be…
such a king, who may regard the common good before his own’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Who did Milton worry about in (The Tenure of Kings - 1649)?
those who joined parliament as a ‘novelty’
‘this yron yoke…
of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘Is it just or…
reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free?’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘a less number…
compel a greater to retain… their liberty’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Milton defended single rule by Cromwell who was ‘the greatest…
and most glorious of our citizens’ (Defensio Secunda - 1654)
What did the Lady in Comus claim to retain?
‘freedom of my mind’
On whom does the Lady in Comus ultimately rely to free her from physical restraint?
Sabrina, the Water Nymph
The Spirit claims of the characters that ‘Heaven… [that]…
sent them here through hard assay’ (Comus - 1634)
Satan admits to Christ ‘Thy actions…
to thy words accord, thy words/To thy large heart give utterance due’ (Paradise Regained - 1671)
‘Nothing of all…
these evils hath befall’n me/But justly’ (Samson Agonistes - 1671)
