Christ’s College, to which Milton belonged, ranked about third in the university in respect of numbers, counting about 265 members on its books. The master was Dr Thomas Bainbrigge ; and among the thirteen fellows were Mr Joseph Meade, still remembered as a commentator on the Apocalypse, an...
Milton lost his eyesight at the age of 44 due to excessive writing that he had to do as a government servant. He was completely blind and had to count on others for his everyday tasks. By that time, he had not even started writing the epic poem, which was the sole ambition in his ...
Milton may have been rusticated (suspended) in his first year for quarrelling with his tutor, Bishop William Chappell. He was certainly at home in London in the Lent Term 1626; there he wrote his Elegia Prima, a first Latin elegy, to Charles Diodati, a friend from St Paul's. Based on ...
procession of servants, friends and loyal family walked his body the four miles (6.4 km) for burial. Having no wife or children, he left his entire estate to his sisters and their children.[4]He was buried in Paris at the Saint Louis Cemetery, which belonged to the French royal family....
1.1 Being a revolutionist John Milton spent the most energetic and active years on the revolution. When he was traveling in European countries, the revolution took place and he decided to go home. Since then he had devoted himself to the revolution for twenty years from the age of thirty-...
Even in the absence of DNA testing,other tests could provide useful information,including whether the bones belonged to a man or a woman,and whether the person died young or old. Even within the committee,experts are divided over the identity of the"Mona Lisa." ...
by the mediation of which divine intellect can intervene directly with individuals.[37]Matthew Haletried to merge the theory of Grotius on property with Selden's view on obligation.[38]Cumberland and Hale both belonged to a larger group, followers in a broad sense of Selden, with backgrounds ...
which causes them to become lonely. And then there's Curley’s wife. She is the only woman on the ranch. She is expected to stay home and to stay away from the men on the ranch. Always being by herself causes her to feel lonely. The people in thisnovellawho show loneliness are the...
This indomitable man belonged to that middle-class of self-governing, self-respecting yeomanry that has been the glory of free England and free America. He was one of the sturdy race that overthrew French chivalry at Crecy and twice drove the soldiery of a tyrant down the slope of Bunker ...
The pastor told them that Klopstock was the German Milton. “A very German Milton indeed,” they thought. The Wordsworths remained for four wintry months at Goslar, in Saxony, while Coleridge went on to Ratzeburg, Goettingen, and other places, mastering German, and “delving in the ...