Word: christinstead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which is finally won for the Parliament and Calvinism by a dashing charge of the celestial Ironsides led by Christinstead of Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly grand. Like all great literary creations, he is really the embodiment of the ideals, the aspirations, and the passions, of the time and country in which he was created. We see in him the struggle of a powerful and independent mind against...
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