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The "Remonstrant" to whom Milton replied was Bishop Hall.] [Footnote 2: This principle admitted of general application.
For example, astrological books were to be licensed by John Booker, who could by no means see his way to pass the prognostications of his rival Lilly without "many impertinent obliterations," which made Lilly exceeding wroth.] [Footnote 3: Two persons of this uncommon name are mentioned in the State Papers of Milton's time--one a merchant who imported a cargo of timber; the other a leatherseller.
The name also occurs once in Pepys.] [Footnote 4: Rossetti's sonnet, "On the Refusal of Aid between Nations," is an almost equally remarkable instance.] [Footnote 5: The same is recorded of Friedrich Hebbel, the most original of modern German dramatists.] [Footnote 6: In his "Urim of Conscience," 1695.
This curious book contains one of the first English accounts of Buddha, whom the author calls Chacabout (Sakhya Buddha, apparently), and of the "Christians of St.John" at Bassora.] [Footnote 7: Ariosto and Marcellus Palingenius.
Both these wrote before Ronsard, to whom the thought is traced by Pattison, and Valvasone, to whom Hayley deems Milton indebted for it.] [Footnote 8: We cannot agree with Mr.Edmundson that Milton was in any respect indebted to Vondel's "Adam's Banishment," published in 1664.] [Footnote 9: Theocritus, Idyll I.; Lang's translation.] INDEX. A. Adam, not the hero of "Paradise Lost," 155 Adonais compared with Lycidas, 51 Aldersgate Street, Milton's home in, 67, 83 "Allegro, L.," 49-50 Andreini, his "Adamo" supposed to have suggested "Paradise Lost," 169 Anglesey, Earl of, visits Milton, 186 "Animadversions upon the Remonstrant," 72 "Apology for Smectymnuus," 72 "Arcades," 44 "Areopagitica, the," 78; argument of, 79-82 Arian opinions of Milton, 159, 191 Ariosto, Milton borrows from, 164 Artillery Walk, Milton's last house, 144 "At a Solemn Music," 33 Aubrey's biographical notices of Milton, 14, 15, 19, 24, 129, 144, 145 B. Ball's Life of Preston, 23 Barbican, Milton's house in the, 96 Baroni, Leonora, admired by Milton, 62 Beddoes, T.L., on Milton and Vondel, 170 Benrath on Ochino's "Divine Tragedy," 171 Blake on Milton, 179 Bradshaw, Milton's praise of, 120 Bread Street, Milton born in, 16 Bridgewater, Lord, "Comus" written in his honour, 45 Bright, John, his admiration for Milton, 164. British Museum, copy of Milton's poems in, 97; proclamation against Milton's books preserved in the, 139 Buckhurst, Lord, his admiration of "Paradise Lost," 177 C. Caedmon, question of Milton's indebtedness to, 169 Calderon's "Magico Prodigioso" compared with "Comus," 54; with "Paradise Lost," 163 Cambridge in Milton's time, 22 Cardinal Barberini receives Milton, 62 Caroline, Princess, her kindness to Milton's daughter, 195 Chalfont St.Giles, Milton's residence at, 173 Chappell, W., Milton's college tutor, 24 Charles I., illegal government of, 30; expedition against the Scots, 67; execution of, 100; alleged authorship of "Eikon Basilike," 105-107; a bad king, but not a bad man, 110 Charles II., restoration of, 138; favour to Roman Catholics, 188 Christ's College, Milton at, 22 "Christian Doctrine," Milton's treatise on, 99, 190-193 "Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes," 132 Clarke, Deborah, Milton's youngest daughter; her reminiscences of her father, 195 Clarke, Mr.Hyde, his discoveries respecting Milton's ancestry, 14, 15 Clarke, Sir T., Milton's MSS.
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