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 127
... authority and right should bear authority and jurisdiction over another , no other end or reason can be imaginable . These for a while governed well , and with much equity decided all things at their own arbitrement , till the temp ...
... authority and right should bear authority and jurisdiction over another , no other end or reason can be imaginable . These for a while governed well , and with much equity decided all things at their own arbitrement , till the temp ...
Page 170
... authority of the state is paramount and liberty means the freedom to do what you are told , Milton makes domestic and religious liberty the corner- stone of political practice . Between them , the two writers define the poles of a ...
... authority of the state is paramount and liberty means the freedom to do what you are told , Milton makes domestic and religious liberty the corner- stone of political practice . Between them , the two writers define the poles of a ...
Page 215
... authority of the church . fees The bishops charged a fee for licensing prea- chers and schoolteachers , for ordaining clergy , and for other parochial services . truckage barter . rooks and rakeshames swindlers and disreputable ruf ...
... authority of the church . fees The bishops charged a fee for licensing prea- chers and schoolteachers , for ordaining clergy , and for other parochial services . truckage barter . rooks and rakeshames swindlers and disreputable ruf ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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