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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... liberty . And if the people , laying aside prejudice and impatience , will seriously and calmly now consider their own good both religious and civil , their own liberty and the only means thereof , as shall be here laid before them ...
... liberty . And if the people , laying aside prejudice and impatience , will seriously and calmly now consider their own good both religious and civil , their own liberty and the only means thereof , as shall be here laid before them ...
Page 144
... liberty and safety . They shall not then need to be much mistrustful of their chosen patriots in the Grand Council , who will be then rightly called the true keepers of our liberty , though the most of their business will be in foreign ...
... liberty and safety . They shall not then need to be much mistrustful of their chosen patriots in the Grand Council , who will be then rightly called the true keepers of our liberty , though the most of their business will be in foreign ...
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... liberty of mankind , turning all virtue into prescription , servitude and necessity , to the great impairing and frustrating of Christian liberty . I say again , this way lies free and smooth before us , is not tangled with ...
... liberty of mankind , turning all virtue into prescription , servitude and necessity , to the great impairing and frustrating of Christian liberty . I say again , this way lies free and smooth before us , is not tangled with ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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