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The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. " Compared with these verses the three satiri- cal sonnets in defence of his divorce tracts represent a much lower plane of thought and execution, but even these are fine in their way, and are proofs of Milton's astonishing mental and moral vigor. Leaving out th...e grand sonnet " On His Blindness, " which is too well known to require 1 Compare the great prose tributes in the " Second Defence. " WORKS 189 comment and is perhaps the best single illustra- tion of the sublimity of Milton's character to be found in his works, we have in the remaining seven sonnets a series of domestic tributes to friends, two of them being elegiacal. That to a M Virtuous Young Lady, " who is still unknown, is so full of charm that it ought to be quoted whenever Milton is attacked for his supposed indifference to women.
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