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The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's; With Other Essays is by David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. A passage on Paradise Lost says that the working notion which the devils have about God is exactly that which human beings have when they hope to succeed in a bad enterprise. A passage says the whole narrative proceeds on the supposition that those supernatural beings had no higher degree of knowledge than human beings, with equal physical advantages, would have had under similar circumstances.
A listing of writers includes Milton, in his fifty-second year, blind, desolate and stern, hiding in obscure lodgings till his defences of regicide should be sufficiently forgotten. Butler is described as brimful of hatred to the Puritans and already engaged on his poem of Hudibras.
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