Show Milton High in Ranks of Lovers Lover of Liberty Milton combined in his temperament the end and the reformer Ills His loor lo love kne of or beauty IS as excelled only by his love lo of duty uty William r. r Lyon on Phelps writes In the New dew York Vork l Evening Post The watchword of cf his life wag c lib lib- erty Milton ns so stanch a tighter for liberty that in many parts of cf J Europe he was rr regarded as ns nn no an no- Ills 1118 Defense of or the English People was as publicly burned at Paris and aed at ot Toulouse When King Louis XIV Mv required Ida his ambassador at Loudon lurk Lou don to report on OD nil 1111 the distinguished writers in England the report con eon lathed ore one named II who ho ho has made more jg by his dangerous writings than the nor mur and aw n n of the kin king Milton always aloys stood oc-d oc for civil chU domes lomes tic and liberty and Ilk like Ilk many sincere los lowers era of liberty be Ill had a mn talent for tte inopportune r. r tune Nearly early all nit the poets wrote odes odea In praise of Cromwell during his hll reign but when en ling King Charles 11 Il returned these roots poets hastened under cover conr and In verse the tte new cew regime But Dut In the very year jear cf of t the kings king's 1 return 1600 Milton Jilton published a n pamphlet t tolled railed A Rend Rendy and ond Easy Iuey WilY Way to Es Es- a Tree free Commonwealth |