The Life of John Milton Volume 4; Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...spite, in which he threatens to "turn all his venom against me, because he understands I "think well of Milton's book. But what I have said, and "will still say, is not so much that a bad cause has been "well pleaded by Milton as that Scribonius has pleaded most "abominably the cause of the unfortunate King. If he "cannot endure this frankness of mine, let him be hanged "There is no reason why he should expect me to take the "post of his flatterer; for he cannot but know that he has "never hitherto found me his servile and obsequious client. "But it is a malignant and Salmasian fiction of his that I am "not less the enemy of Kings than Milton is, inasmuch as I "have twice publicly testified what I think of the English "Parricide. If Mr. Salmasius gives me the chance, as be"yond all doubt he will, you shall see him shortly set forth "and trimmed according to his deserts in his proper com"pany, i. e. among the Regicides. I will not spare either his "old age or his bad health. I will treat him as he long ago "treated my father, or worse, if I can... Salmasius's attack "on Milton is now in course of publication. Our Graswinkel "also has undertaken to defend the cause of Kings against "the same Milton, and wants the book to be printed at "Elzevir's press."--It will be seen that the great Salmasius was not regarded as a Prophet by all Dutchmen, and that the Heinsii, in particular, were at feud with him.1 In France and Germany, no less than in Holland and Sweden, the attention of scholars had at once been fastened on Milton's book; and he himself tells us (Def. Sec.) that it had hardly been out when positively every foreigner then resident in London, ...