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 78
... follows the worst that can be imagined . Do they hope to avoid this by keeping prelates , that have so often done it ? Not to exemplify the malapert insolence of our own bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ...
... follows the worst that can be imagined . Do they hope to avoid this by keeping prelates , that have so often done it ? Not to exemplify the malapert insolence of our own bishops in this kind towards our kings , I shall turn back to the ...
Page 129
... follows from necessary causes that the titles of ' sovereign lord ' , ' natural lord ' and the like are either arro- gancies or flatteries , not admitted by emperors and kings of best note , and disliked by the church both of the Jews ...
... follows from necessary causes that the titles of ' sovereign lord ' , ' natural lord ' and the like are either arro- gancies or flatteries , not admitted by emperors and kings of best note , and disliked by the church both of the Jews ...
Page 233
... follows , and avoids the full syncretism of identifying the two . horrid clang The reference is to Exodus 19.16 , where God announces himself on Mount Sinai with ' thun- ders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the 168 169 171 173 ...
... follows , and avoids the full syncretism of identifying the two . horrid clang The reference is to Exodus 19.16 , where God announces himself on Mount Sinai with ' thun- ders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the 168 169 171 173 ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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