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 62
... justice ' , which is the universal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other virtues , it may assure us that the fall of prelacy , whose actions are so far distant from justice , cannot shake the least fringe ...
... justice ' , which is the universal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other virtues , it may assure us that the fall of prelacy , whose actions are so far distant from justice , cannot shake the least fringe ...
Page 132
... justice and arraign- ment as any other transgressors ? And certainly if men ( not to speak of heathen ) both wise and religious have done justice upon tyrants what way they could soonest , how much more mild and human then is it to give ...
... justice and arraign- ment as any other transgressors ? And certainly if men ( not to speak of heathen ) both wise and religious have done justice upon tyrants what way they could soonest , how much more mild and human then is it to give ...
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... Justice In his own version of Psalm 85 ( which lies behind this passage ) , Milton preferred ' Justice ' to the Authorized Version translation ' Right- eousness ' in verse 11 : " Truth from the earth like to a flower / Shall bud and ...
... Justice In his own version of Psalm 85 ( which lies behind this passage ) , Milton preferred ' Justice ' to the Authorized Version translation ' Right- eousness ' in verse 11 : " Truth from the earth like to a flower / Shall bud and ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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