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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 38
... light and noise ( Not being in danger , as I trust she is not ) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts And put them into misbecoming plight . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and ...
... light and noise ( Not being in danger , as I trust she is not ) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts And put them into misbecoming plight . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and ...
Page 136
... LIGHT IS SPENT ' When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker and present ...
... LIGHT IS SPENT ' When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker and present ...
Page 189
... light The ' inner light ' of conscience and the assurance of salvation was a central concept of Puritanism . cf. Paradise Lost , III , 51-3 : ' So much the rather thou celestial Light / Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers ...
... light The ' inner light ' of conscience and the assurance of salvation was a central concept of Puritanism . cf. Paradise Lost , III , 51-3 : ' So much the rather thou celestial Light / Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ancient appear associated authority bishops blind body Book of Revelation bring called cause Christ Christian church civil comes common Comus Council critical daughter death English eyes father fear follows genre give glossary grace Greek hand hath head Heaven hence ideas Italy John justice kind king known Lady later Latin learned less liberty light lines live London look Lord Lycidas masque means Milton Muse Nativity nature never Paradise Lost Parliament passage pastoral peace perhaps person poem poet poetry political probably prose Protestant published Puritan reading reason reference Reformation Roman senate sense song soul Spirit star story suggest things thou thought tion traditional true truth turn universal virtue Wind writing