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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... bring about their damned designs , that stand now at the entrance of the bottomless pit , expecting the watchword to open and let out those dreadful locusts and scorpions , to reinvolve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness where ...
... bring about their damned designs , that stand now at the entrance of the bottomless pit , expecting the watchword to open and let out those dreadful locusts and scorpions , to reinvolve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness where ...
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John Milton Tony Davies. heat . Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world , we bring impurity much rather ... brings him in with his Palmer through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Earthly Bliss , that he might see and know , and ...
John Milton Tony Davies. heat . Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world , we bring impurity much rather ... brings him in with his Palmer through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Earthly Bliss , that he might see and know , and ...
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... bring To arched walks of twilight groves And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine or monumental oak , Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt . There in close ...
... bring To arched walks of twilight groves And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine or monumental oak , Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt . There in close ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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