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... virtue . Thus the central action of the masque- the overthrow of one magician by another - reveals , as in Shakespeare's The Tempest , that magic can result in enslavement or be the means of liberation and that adhering to the norms of ...
... virtue . Thus the central action of the masque- the overthrow of one magician by another - reveals , as in Shakespeare's The Tempest , that magic can result in enslavement or be the means of liberation and that adhering to the norms of ...
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... virtue by Platonists , who considered all virtues as self - purifying . According to the reading of Plato by the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino , chastity means a consecration of the soul to the good . Milton shows that ...
... virtue by Platonists , who considered all virtues as self - purifying . According to the reading of Plato by the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino , chastity means a consecration of the soul to the good . Milton shows that ...
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... virtue . The epilogue reminds the reader of Milton's central moral ideas : Virtue is the source of freedom , whereas sin enslaves ; the way to virtue is by discipline , but the way to Heaven is by virtue and grace . Four years after the ...
... virtue . The epilogue reminds the reader of Milton's central moral ideas : Virtue is the source of freedom , whereas sin enslaves ; the way to virtue is by discipline , but the way to Heaven is by virtue and grace . Four years after the ...
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