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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... soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust By unchaste looks , loose gestures and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , The soul grows clotted by contagion ...
... soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust By unchaste looks , loose gestures and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , The soul grows clotted by contagion ...
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... soul , and not smell within him the brim- stone of hell , may have fair leave to tell all his bags over undiminished ... souls into the hands of men that beg so devoutly for the pride and gluttony of their own backs and bellies , that ...
... soul , and not smell within him the brim- stone of hell , may have fair leave to tell all his bags over undiminished ... souls into the hands of men that beg so devoutly for the pride and gluttony of their own backs and bellies , that ...
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... soul ( Greek psyche ) with divine love ( Greek eros ) . Youth and Joy In Apuleius , Psyche has one child , Voluptas ( Pleasure ) , interpreted by Christian Platon- ists as the eternal bliss of the redeemed soul . Milton's twins seem to ...
... soul ( Greek psyche ) with divine love ( Greek eros ) . Youth and Joy In Apuleius , Psyche has one child , Voluptas ( Pleasure ) , interpreted by Christian Platon- ists as the eternal bliss of the redeemed soul . Milton's twins seem to ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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