Show M hutsn man high in ranks ranle s of lovers of liberty I 1 dinu ined in tits his temperament tin the artist wol the re reformer furnier uis ills loe loc or of beauty 1 nas I as only by ills love of duty VA william Illarr lyon phelps writes in ill file new york evening post the watchword of ills his life was lib eity milton was so stanch a lighter fighter for political liberty that in many parts of europe lie he was regarded as an anarchist ar chist ills defense 0 of the english people was vas publicly burned at paris ind anil at toulouse when king louis XIV required his ambassador at london to report on all the distinguished writers in england the report contained one named olio mho has made himself more infamous by his dangerous writings than the murderers and assassins ot of the king milton always stood for dill cliff domestic and religious liberty and ilk like many sincere lovers of liberty he had a magnificent talent for the inopportune nearly all the poets wrote odes odea in praise of cromwell during his reign hut but when king charles 11 II returned these poets poeta hastened under cover and saluted in verse the new regime put but in the very year of the kings return milton published a pamphlet called A ready keady and easy way to establish a free commonwealth |