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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... bishops , prayer book and church courts and cove- nanted instead for a system of elders ( ' presbyters ' ) presiding over a network of regional assemblies or ' synods ' . The pathetic failure of the two ' Bishops ' wars ' of 1639 and ...
... bishops , prayer book and church courts and cove- nanted instead for a system of elders ( ' presbyters ' ) presiding over a network of regional assemblies or ' synods ' . The pathetic failure of the two ' Bishops ' wars ' of 1639 and ...
Page 78
... bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ' primitive and pure times ' which the objectors would have the rule of reformation to us . Not an assembly , but one Bishop alone , Saint Ambrose of Milan , held ...
... bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ' primitive and pure times ' which the objectors would have the rule of reformation to us . Not an assembly , but one Bishop alone , Saint Ambrose of Milan , held ...
Page 213
... bishop's surplice , here used adjectivally episcopal . = Gascons Until the fifteenth century the English kings had claimed Gascony in south - west France as part of their own territory . Tympany ' , a malig- tympany of spaniolized bishops ...
... bishop's surplice , here used adjectivally episcopal . = Gascons Until the fifteenth century the English kings had claimed Gascony in south - west France as part of their own territory . Tympany ' , a malig- tympany of spaniolized bishops ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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