SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE AND POETRY OF JOHN MILTON EDITED BY JAMES HOLLY HANFORD, PH.D. SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE AND POETRY OF JOHN MILTON EDITED BY JAMES HOLLY HANFORD, PH.D. COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS: ILLUSTRATING MILTON'S LIFE, PERSONALITY, AND PRINCIPLES FROM THE LATIN POEMS AND THE FAMILIAR LETTERS The Reason of Church Government The Second Defence of the English People SELECTIONS FROM THE MINOR POEMS, PARADISE REGAINED, AND SAMSON A GONISTES On the Morning of Christ's Nativity On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three 54 |