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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... persons , it cannot from all , in such a universal thing as books are ; and when this is done , yet the sin remains ... person more than the restraint of ten vicious . 330 340 340 350 360 380 Well knows he who uses to consider that our ...
... persons , it cannot from all , in such a universal thing as books are ; and when this is done , yet the sin remains ... person more than the restraint of ten vicious . 330 340 340 350 360 380 Well knows he who uses to consider that our ...
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... person So clear as in no face with more delight . But O , as to embrace me she inclin'd , shin'd I wak'd , she fled , and day brought back my night . Composed 1658 ? from THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH I doubt ...
... person So clear as in no face with more delight . But O , as to embrace me she inclin'd , shin'd I wak'd , she fled , and day brought back my night . Composed 1658 ? from THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH I doubt ...
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... person or house of lords , the work is done ; at least , the foundation firmly laid of a free Com- monwealth , and good part also erected of the main struc- ture . For the ground and basis of every just and free government ( since men ...
... person or house of lords , the work is done ; at least , the foundation firmly laid of a free Com- monwealth , and good part also erected of the main struc- ture . For the ground and basis of every just and free government ( since men ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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