Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsRoutledge, 1988 - 265 pages Includes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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Page 202
... ancient and semi - legendary priesthood of the Druids . cf. Areopagitica , 567n . Deva Latin name for the Cheshire Dee . King was sailing from Chester to Ireland when he was drowned . wizard stream In the 1628 Vacation Exercise , Milton ...
... ancient and semi - legendary priesthood of the Druids . cf. Areopagitica , 567n . Deva Latin name for the Cheshire Dee . King was sailing from Chester to Ireland when he was drowned . wizard stream In the 1628 Vacation Exercise , Milton ...
Page 221
... ancient high court of Athens , the Areopagus ( so named from the Hill of Ares ( = Mars ) on which it met , alongside the Acropolis ) . Like Milton's , Isocrates ' speech was intended to be read rather than orally delivered ; near the ...
... ancient high court of Athens , the Areopagus ( so named from the Hill of Ares ( = Mars ) on which it met , alongside the Acropolis ) . Like Milton's , Isocrates ' speech was intended to be read rather than orally delivered ; near the ...
Page 265
... ancient times one of the attribute - names of Aphrodite . Milton gives it to the ninth and highest of the Muses , patroness of divine poetry . ' Nat ' , 15 ; ' Sol Mus ' , 2n . Venus Ancient Italian ( i.e. pre - Roman ) goddess of ...
... ancient times one of the attribute - names of Aphrodite . Milton gives it to the ninth and highest of the Muses , patroness of divine poetry . ' Nat ' , 15 ; ' Sol Mus ' , 2n . Venus Ancient Italian ( i.e. pre - Roman ) goddess of ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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