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Its almost superhuman eloquence is rivalled by a passage in the pamphlet Against Prelaty, in which Milton confutes the calumnies of his foes by a glorious epitome of his studies, projects, and literary aspirations. The tractate, Of Education, embodies a beautiful but uto- pian scheme for bringing modern educational training into conformity with ancient ideas. Others of the finest of his prose treatises are the Iconoclastes, the Defensio Populi Anglicani, Defensio Secunda, and A Ready and Easy W...ay to Establish a Free Commonwealth. There is no spectacle in the history of literature more touching and sublime than Milton blind, poor, persecuted, and alone, "fallen upon evil days and evil tongues, in darkness and with dangers compassed round, " retiring into obscurity to compose those immortal epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. The Paradise Lost (126) was originally composed in ten books, which were afterwards so divided as to make twelve. Its composition, though tiie work was probably meditated long before, f occupied about * "It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should in our time be BO little read.
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