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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... father a scrivener , an occupation somewhere between an accountant , a solicitor , and an investment broker . The family was Protestant , even ( to use a vague term ) Puritan : John Milton senior had been disowned by his own father , a ...
... father a scrivener , an occupation somewhere between an accountant , a solicitor , and an investment broker . The family was Protestant , even ( to use a vague term ) Puritan : John Milton senior had been disowned by his own father , a ...
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... father Atha- mas , and was rescued and immortalized by the Nereids . See Lycidas , 164n . charmed band the sorcery that binds her and prevents her from rising . Anchises ' line Brute ( Brutus ) , father of Locrine and legendary founder ...
... father Atha- mas , and was rescued and immortalized by the Nereids . See Lycidas , 164n . charmed band the sorcery that binds her and prevents her from rising . Anchises ' line Brute ( Brutus ) , father of Locrine and legendary founder ...
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... Father ( i.e. Patriarch ) of the other Olympian Gods , so - called from Mount Olympus in north - east Greece . Forms of the name are found throughout the Indo - European world , often with the suffix ' pater ' , ' father ' , from the ...
... Father ( i.e. Patriarch ) of the other Olympian Gods , so - called from Mount Olympus in north - east Greece . Forms of the name are found throughout the Indo - European world , often with the suffix ' pater ' , ' father ' , from the ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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