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 56
... once more , O ye laurels , and once more , Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never - sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint and sad ...
... once more , O ye laurels , and once more , Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never - sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint and sad ...
Page 100
... once here for Caesar , preferred the natural wits of Britain be- fore the laboured studies of the French . Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian sends out yearly from as far as the mountainous borders of Russia ...
... once here for Caesar , preferred the natural wits of Britain be- fore the laboured studies of the French . Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian sends out yearly from as far as the mountainous borders of Russia ...
Page 138
... once undeceived or in their own power . Now is the opportunity , now the very season wherein we may obtain a free Commonwealth and establish it for ever in the land without difficulty or much delay . Writs are sent out for elections ...
... once undeceived or in their own power . Now is the opportunity , now the very season wherein we may obtain a free Commonwealth and establish it for ever in the land without difficulty or much delay . Writs are sent out for elections ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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