Show k X K E t E X r E X K X X K Y X X X X- X X- X X A-X- Milton High in Ranks of Lovers of Liberty Milton combined In In his temperament the artist and the reformer Ills love of beauty was excelled only by his love loe of ot dut duty William Lyon Phelps writes in the New York Evenn Evening Post The watchword of his life Ufe was lib erty Milton was so stanch a fighter for tor political liberty that In n man many parts of Europe he lie heas was as regarded as an an an- Ills Defense of ot the English People was as publicly burned at Paris and at Toulouse When Kin King ICing Louis Lous XIV required his ambassador at London London Lon Lon- don to report on all aU the distinguished writers In England the report contained con con- one named l who o has mode himself more Infamous by his dangerous writings s than the murderers murderers murderers mur mur- and und assassins of the time king Milton always stood for Cor civil domestic domes domes- tic and religious liberty and undo like lIle man ninny many sincere lovers ers of liberty he lie had hada hadn a n magnificent talent for the inopportune tune Nearly all the poets wrote odes In praise of Cromwell during his reign but when King ICing Charles II returned these poets hastened under cover and und saluted in verse the new re regime Bu But In the very ery year jear cur of the kings king's return 1660 Milton published a pamphlet called A Ready and 1 Easy Way ay to Establish Es Es- I Establish s- s a Free Erse Commonwealth |