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 88
... virtue there- fore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure : her whiteness is but an excremental ...
... virtue there- fore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure : her whiteness is but an excremental ...
Page 94
... virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin ; for besides that it is a huge heap increasing under the very act of dimi- nishing , though some part of it may for a ...
... virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin ; for besides that it is a huge heap increasing under the very act of dimi- nishing , though some part of it may for a ...
Page 156
... virtue . But virtue alone is not enough to save us . For that we need grace . The symbolic link between nature and grace is the sacraments ( Sabrina's baptismal ' drops ... from my fountain pure ' ) . The Lady can withstand Comus's ...
... virtue . But virtue alone is not enough to save us . For that we need grace . The symbolic link between nature and grace is the sacraments ( Sabrina's baptismal ' drops ... from my fountain pure ' ) . The Lady can withstand Comus's ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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