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 82
... learning and industry from the greasy clutch of ignorance and high feeding ? We have tried already and miserably felt what ambition , worldly glory and immoderate wealth can do , what the boisterous and contradictional hand of a ...
... learning and industry from the greasy clutch of ignorance and high feeding ? We have tried already and miserably felt what ambition , worldly glory and immoderate wealth can do , what the boisterous and contradictional hand of a ...
Page 89
... learning , that they writ in an unknown tongue , so long as we are sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men , who are both most able and most diligent to instil the poison they suck first into the courts of princes ...
... learning , that they writ in an unknown tongue , so long as we are sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men , who are both most able and most diligent to instil the poison they suck first into the courts of princes ...
Page 240
... learning . The sock is the light shoe worn by comic actors in the Roman theatre ; hence ' comedy ' . Tragic actors wore a more substantial boot , the ' buskin ' of ' Penser- oso ' , 102 . Lydian airs The Lydian mode was associated with ...
... learning . The sock is the light shoe worn by comic actors in the Roman theatre ; hence ' comedy ' . Tragic actors wore a more substantial boot , the ' buskin ' of ' Penser- oso ' , 102 . Lydian airs The Lydian mode was associated with ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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