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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... church with the secular sovereign at its head as ' Defender of the Faith ' - ironically , a title conferred on Henry for defending the papacy against Luther – provided a powerful institutional sym- bol of emergent nationhood and a focus ...
... church with the secular sovereign at its head as ' Defender of the Faith ' - ironically , a title conferred on Henry for defending the papacy against Luther – provided a powerful institutional sym- bol of emergent nationhood and a focus ...
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... church discipline to the civil be so desired , there can be nothing more parallel , more uni- form , than when under the sovereign prince , Christ's viceregent , using the sceptre of David according to God's law , the godliest , the ...
... church discipline to the civil be so desired , there can be nothing more parallel , more uni- form , than when under the sovereign prince , Christ's viceregent , using the sceptre of David according to God's law , the godliest , the ...
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... church's wealth , he sent for cartloads of poor people , declaring ' these are the riches of the church ' . lawn and sarsnet ... geometrical rhomboides Lawn is a fine cotton material , sarsnet ( or sarcenet ) a kind of silk . The ...
... church's wealth , he sent for cartloads of poor people , declaring ' these are the riches of the church ' . lawn and sarsnet ... geometrical rhomboides Lawn is a fine cotton material , sarsnet ( or sarcenet ) a kind of silk . The ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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