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 40
... divine property of her first being . Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchers Hovering and sitting by a new - made grave , As loth to leave the body that it lov'd , And link'd itself by ...
... divine property of her first being . Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchers Hovering and sitting by a new - made grave , As loth to leave the body that it lov'd , And link'd itself by ...
Page 74
... divine command in the ministry ? Thus then we see that our ecclesial and political choices may consent and sort as well together , without any rupture in the state , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed ...
... divine command in the ministry ? Thus then we see that our ecclesial and political choices may consent and sort as well together , without any rupture in the state , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed ...
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... divine love ( Greek eros ) . Youth and Joy In Apuleius , Psyche has one child , Voluptas ( Pleasure ) , interpreted by Christian Platon- ists as the eternal bliss of the redeemed soul . Milton's twins seem to be his own variation of the ...
... divine love ( Greek eros ) . Youth and Joy In Apuleius , Psyche has one child , Voluptas ( Pleasure ) , interpreted by Christian Platon- ists as the eternal bliss of the redeemed soul . Milton's twins seem to be his own variation of the ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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