And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

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But,the history of Royalism is not--it goes beyond that, and there was a strong Royalist movement, as I've already suggested, and it wasn't just people looking backwards.

但是君主主义者们克服了这点,发起了一场强有力的保皇主义运动,就如我之前表示的,这不仅仅是人们在追溯过去

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