2. From the ode.

3. Eschylus.

4. Influence of the East.

5. As a dramatist. (Eschylus.)

6. His choruses.

7. Sophocles.

8. His work.

9. Euripides.

10. Attempts to reform farther. XXI. Samson Agonistes.

1. Milton's admiration for Euripides more than he deserved.

2. Like the beautiful Queen of Fairy-land kissing the long ears of Bottom.

3. This was injurious to Samson Agonistes.

4. Had he taken AEschylus he would have been lyric, and no attention paid to dramatic needs.

5. Failed to reconcile the inconsistent.

6. Cannot identify ourselves with the characters. 7. Or with poet, as in a good ode.

8. Least successful effort of Milton.

1. Italian Masque, its model.

2. Noblest of its kind in the language.

3. Faithful Shepherdess, Aminta, Pastor Fido.

4. Loved but did not reverence Italian Literature.

5. Had antipathy to its faults.

6. False brilliancy his utter aversion.

7. His muse wears but gold.

XXIII. Characteristics of Comus.

1. Attended to distinctions neglected in Samson Agonistes.

2. Lyrical, and dramatic only in semblance.

3. Did not attempt a struggle against inherent defects.

4. Successful where success was possible.

5. Speeches majestic soliloquies.

6. Interruptions of dialogue impose constraint. 7. Break the illusion of reader.

8. Best passages lyric in form and spirit.

9. Opinion of Sir Henry Wotten.

10. When free from dialogue he rises above himself. XXIV. Minor Poems.

1. Paradise regained.

2. Superior to any poem since.

Section B. Paradise Lost and Inferno.
Section C. Milton's Life.

XLIII. The Age in Which He Lived.

1. His public conduct in keeping with it.

2. At Crisis of conflict of liberty and despotism. 3. Destinies of Human race at stake.

4. Pinciples of America, Greece first proclaims. 5. Roused all Europe.

XLIV. Civil War Misunderstood (Why).

1. The enemies of liberty, the painters though conquered.

2. Roundheads did their utmost to ruin literature. 3. Their best book, narrative of Mrs. Hutchinson. 4. May's History of Parliament good. Catharine Macauley.

5. Best books on the other side, Clarendon and Hume.

6. Clarendon ably written with an air of dignity. 7. Hume fascinating, hated religion, and hated liberty for being allied with it.

XLV. Was Milton's Conduct Justifiable?

1. If resistance to Charles was-yes.

2. Therefore discuss it.

3. Not argue on general grounds.

4. Not recur to primary principles of government.

5. Entitled to that vantage ground but relinquish it. So confident we are like the knights of old.

6.

7.

Take the naked constitutional question.

8. Every reason for rebellion of 1688 applies here,

XLVI. Character of Charles.

1. Better sovereign than his son.

2. Because he was a Papist.

3. Charles and Laud retained the vices of Popery. (1) Subjection of reason.

(2) Childish passion for mummeries.

(3) Idolatrous veneration for priest. (4) Merciless intolerance.

4. Yet we granted that he was a Protestant.

5.

This makes no distinction between his case and that of James.

XLVII. Principles of Revolution Misunderstood. 1. Class of men who read to find excuses for existing abuses.

2. Pass what is essential-take what is accidental. 3. Hide beneficial-show defective.

4. Fleshflies delight in unsoundness.

XLVIII. Inconsistencies of Enemies of Revolution. 1. Insensible to its blessings.

One sect necessarily restrained.

3. One part of the kingdom crushed in proportion to freedom of the remainder.

4. These parts contemplated.

5. Zealots for Naples, Spain and South America under Divine Right.

6. Mention Ireland-William is a hero.

7. Revolution a glorious era when across the Channel.

8. Boast that they look at measures not men.

9. Care not who does evil so it is done.

10. Their recent assertions stamp the revolution as Protestant.

XLIX. Revolution not Protestant.

1. No one well versed believes James' religion caused his expulsion.

2. Catholic expelled because he is a tyrant.

3. James had broken fundamental laws.

4. All who approve this revolution believe this sufficient reason..

L. Had Charles Broken These Laws?

1. The king acknowledges it.

2. Any historian calls his reign oppression.

3. Any act has its parallel in James.

4. Every article in Declaration of Rights broken. (1) Usurped legislation.

(2) Raised taxes.

(3) Quartered troops on people.

(4) Right of petition violated.

(5) Arbitrary judgments, exhorbitant fines, and unwarranted imprisonments of daily occurrence.

5. If this was right the revolution was treason. LI. Why not adopt Milder Means?

1.

Persistence of Parliament.

(1) Ship-money given up.
(2) Star chamber abolished.
(3) Frequent Parliaments called.

2. All parallel with James.

3. They could not trust their king.

LII. Better Grounds.

1. No act of James equals Charles with respect to "Petition of Right."

2. Bargains for subsidies-violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass.

LIII. The Question.

1. Ten years their rights had been infringed. 2. Calls a parliament.

3. Were the people to trust Charles?

4. No-they did nobly.

LIV. Defence of Charles.

1. Testimony of character.

2. Private virtues.

3. James also had these virtues.

4. Oliver Cromwell had these virtues.

5. Virtues no more than natural ones.

LV. Weakness of Replies.

1. Breaks coronation oath.

2. Kept marriage vow.

3. Resigns people to prelates.
4. Took his son on his knee.
5. Violates Petition of Rights.

6. Held six o'clock prayer.

7. To such, and his handsome face he owes his popularity.

LVI. Characteristics Incongruous.

1. Good man and bad King.

2. As well good man and unnatural father.

3. Character made up of all relations of life.

4. If selfish, cruel, and deceitful-he is a bad man. LVII. Example of Predecessors.

1. He had this.

2. Privileges of people not defined.

3. Tudors had done all he did.

4. Hume.

5. Charles had assented to Petition of Rights. LVIII. Case Stated Simply.

LIX. Enemies of Parliament Avoid the Question. 1. Expose some of the crimes and follies.

2. Death of Stafford bewailed.

3. Violence of the army, etc.

LX. Be it so.

1. Our opinion unaltered.

2. Many evils produced. 3. Price of Liberty.

4. Acquisition worth the sacrifice.

LXI. Outrages Deplored.

1. Violence proportional evil.

2. Thus it was in England's civil war.

3. Church and state prohibit free discussion. 4. Ruler had taken away key of knowledge. LXII. Revolutions Worst at First.

1. The use of freedom.
2. People in wine countries.
3. Plenty teaches discretion.