And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

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These are just two incompatible moral positions that Machiavelli states but he goes further than this.

这是马基雅维利所言的两种不可调和的,对立道德立场，但是他并未就此善罢甘休。

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