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 78
... follows the worst that can be imagined . Do they hope to avoid this by keeping prelates , that have so often done it ? Not to exemplify the malapert insolence of our own bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ...
... follows the worst that can be imagined . Do they hope to avoid this by keeping prelates , that have so often done it ? Not to exemplify the malapert insolence of our own bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ...
Page 129
... follows from necessary causes that the titles of ' sovereign lord ' , ' natural lord ' and the like are either arro- gancies or flatteries , not admitted by emperors and kings of best note , and disliked by the church both of the Jews ...
... follows from necessary causes that the titles of ' sovereign lord ' , ' natural lord ' and the like are either arro- gancies or flatteries , not admitted by emperors and kings of best note , and disliked by the church both of the Jews ...
Page 233
... follows , and avoids the full syncretism of identifying the two . horrid clang The reference is to Exodus 19.16 , where God announces himself on Mount Sinai with ' thun- ders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the 168 169 171 173 ...
... follows , and avoids the full syncretism of identifying the two . horrid clang The reference is to Exodus 19.16 , where God announces himself on Mount Sinai with ' thun- ders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the 168 169 171 173 ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
Copyright | |
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