Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsIncludes 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 79
... Christian burial . But in the evangelical and reformed use of this sacred censure no such prostitution , no such Iscar- iotical drifts are to be doubted , as that spiritual doom and sentence should invade worldly possession , which is ...
... Christian burial . But in the evangelical and reformed use of this sacred censure no such prostitution , no such Iscar- iotical drifts are to be doubted , as that spiritual doom and sentence should invade worldly possession , which is ...
Page 82
... Christian peace of the land and union of the reformed Catholic Church , the unappropriating and unmonopolizing the ... Christ's holy Church . Were it such a desperate hazard to put to the venture the universal votes of Christ's con ...
... Christian peace of the land and union of the reformed Catholic Church , the unappropriating and unmonopolizing the ... Christ's holy Church . Were it such a desperate hazard to put to the venture the universal votes of Christ's con ...
Page 191
... Christian mythologies , see Critical commentary , pp . 158 , 161 and Wind 1967. In Paradise Regained Christ rejects the whole argument , dismissing Greek litera- ture and philosophy as ' false , or little else but dreams , / Conjectures ...
... Christian mythologies , see Critical commentary , pp . 158 , 161 and Wind 1967. In Paradise Regained Christ rejects the whole argument , dismissing Greek litera- ture and philosophy as ' false , or little else but dreams , / Conjectures ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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