Milton's description in Paradise Lost of the reconciliation of Adam and Eve draws, apparently, on the real life reconciliation between Milton and his wife .< ref > Thornbury, Walter ( 1878 )' Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand ' in Old and New London: Volume 2 pp. 208-228.

Another inaccurate account of Amba Geshen, called Mount Amara, was published in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Pakenham believes inspired John Milton's description of Paradise that appeared in Paradise Lost.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

'" He goes on to explain the " daemonic ": " Opium was the avenging daemon or alastor of Coleridge's life, his dark or fallen angel, his experiential acquaintance with Milton's Satan.

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

An important aspect of Sir Milton's character was his self-effacement.

Sir Milton's government was based on the rule of law and the notion of separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.

Upon Sir Milton's death in 1964, his half-brother, Sir Albert Margai, was appointed as Prime Minister by parliament.

Soon after Margai was sworn in as Prime Minister, he immediately dismissed several senior government officials who had served under his elder brother Sir Milton's government, as he viewed them as traitors and a threat to his administration.

It includes two mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as Milton's birth.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

Printed by John Milton's publisher the book was an instant " best-seller ", and gave Williams a large and favorable reputation.

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

Milton's return was short-lived though.

Milton's central argument was that the individual is capable of using reason and distinguishing right from wrong, good from bad.

It incorporated in 1876 by David Harshbarger a large land holder, and is named for Milton Reese, Milton's first postmaster, in the vicinity at the time the town was established.

In contrast to the metaphysical poets was John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic religious poem in blank verse.

In the book Milton's Prosody, he took an empirical approach to examining Milton's use of blank verse, and developed the controversial theory that Milton's practice was essentially syllabic.

The second Lady Carbery was the original of the Lady in John Milton's Comus.

In 1747 he wrote an article for the Gentleman's Magazine suggesting that John Milton's Paradise Lost was largely a plagiarism from the Adamus Exul ( 1601 ) of Hugo Grotius, the Sarcotis ( 1654 ) of Jacob Masen ( Masenius, 1606 – 1681 ), and the Poemata Sacra ( 1633 ) of Andrew Ramsay ( 1574 – 1659 ).

Besides the works already cited, Colman was author of adaptations of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca, Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Volpone, Milton's Comus, and of other plays.

" In addition, the term was sometimes used to dismiss a scientific principle considered by the writer to be fanciful, such as in 1855's The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science, which stated that " Milton's conception of inorganic matter left to itself, without an indwelling soul, is not merely more poetical, but more philosophical and just, than the scientific romance, now generally repudiated by all rational inquirers, which represents it as necessarily imbued with the seminal principles of organization and life, and waking up by its own force from eternal quietude to eternal motion.

The current site of Milton's town hall was donated from Mr. Hugh Foster ( and thus, Hugh Foster Hall ).

He firmly contended in the same tract for the sovereign rights of the people, quoted approvingly John Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ( 13 February 1649 ), and maintained that the proceedings against Charles followed the spirit of the law if not the letter.

The title cites John Milton's song from his masque Comus ( 1634 ), which is quoted in the play:

Venn and others have dealt with sports and pastimes at Cambridge in Milton's day with not very specific results.

Smaug the dragon with his golden hoard may be seen as an example of the traditional relationship between evil and metallurgy as collated in the depiction of Pandæmonium with its " Belched fire and rolling smoke " in Milton's Paradise Lost.

The trilogy functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost ; with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing.

John Milton's Comus ( with music by Henry Lawes ) is described as a masque, though it is generally reckoned a pastoral play.

Milton's famous sonnet, " Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint ," alludes to the myth, with the speaker of the poem dreaming of his dead wife being brought to him " like Alcestis ".

* John Milton's sonnet " To the Nightingale " contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to ( or " cuckolded ") their husbands.

He published a facsimile of the Milton manuscript in the Trinity College library ( 1899 ), and edited Milton's poems with critical notes ( 1903 ).

* Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life Toland's earlier book Containing ( I ) a general apology for all writings of that kind, ( II ) a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons, with several important remarks relating to the canon of Scripture, ( III ) a complete history of the book Eikon Basilike proving Dr Gauden and not King Charles I to be the author of it.

Gordon Campbell ( 2008 ) identifies Milton's views as " thnetopsychism ", a belief that the soul dies with the body but is resurrected at the last judgment.

The angel Raphael, along with many other prominent angels, appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he is assigned by God to re-warn Adam concerning the sin of eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He abandoned graduate work on 17th-century religious language with particular reference to Milton's Paradise Lost, to pursue his career in comedy.

* Drummond's Poems, with Cypresse Grove, the History, and a few of the minor tracts, collected in 1656 and edited by Edward Phillips, Milton's nephew.

" Satan rises from the burning lake " ( 1866 ) by Gustave Doré ; a critical interpretation of the poem compares Ulysses ' final sentiments with Satan's " courage never to submit or yield " in John Milton | John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Turnbull collected the works of John Milton extensively, and the library now has holdings of Milton's works which are " ranked among the finest in the world " and " good collections of seventeenth-century poetical miscellanies and of Dryden material, ... along with fine sets of literary periodicals.

Not wanting to kill, he volunteered for the Friends ' Ambulance Unit, FAU, working in France immediately behind the Western Front, and carrying a copy of Milton's poems with him.

Wordsworth planned to write this work together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their joint intent being to surpass John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Table Talk II. 70-71 ; IG3 ).

Although he did not share Milton's religious and political views, and seems, to judge from the free character of his Mysteries of Love and Eloquence ( 1658 ), to have undergone a certain revulsion from his Puritan upbringing, he remained on affectionate terms with his uncle to the end.

His most important work is Theatrum poetarum ( 1675 ), a list of the chief poets of all ages and countries, but principally of the English poets, with short critical notes and a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry, which has usually been traced to Milton's hand.

John Aubrey states that all Milton's papers came into Phillips's hands, and in 1694 he published a translation of his Letters of State with a valuable memoir.

He compared the Canopeans and Shammat to Milton's God and Satan in Paradise Lost, but said that while Lucifer's " overthrow [...] of his writerly creator is an awesome thing ", in Shikasta Lessing's human race with no free will is too passive and of no interest.