Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingR. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson ... and Richard Steevens, 1819 - 311 pages |
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Page ii
... amelioration to which he at one time resigned his imagination : " Because " the Spirit of Man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating 66 " intermission of labour , and serious things , ". ii ( PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
... amelioration to which he at one time resigned his imagination : " Because " the Spirit of Man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating 66 " intermission of labour , and serious things , ". ii ( PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
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... spirit of those which bore away the prize at the Olympic Games and at the periodical celebrations at . Delphi . Had events induced him to have bestowed a positive shape and being on these musings , it was in his contem- plation THE ...
... spirit of those which bore away the prize at the Olympic Games and at the periodical celebrations at . Delphi . Had events induced him to have bestowed a positive shape and being on these musings , it was in his contem- plation THE ...
Page vi
... . " In these passages we perceive the fine touches of an ardent imagination bent on improving the moral condition of Society by every means within the compass of his ability . But the spirit of the times did not vi PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
... . " In these passages we perceive the fine touches of an ardent imagination bent on improving the moral condition of Society by every means within the compass of his ability . But the spirit of the times did not vi PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
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... spirit of the times did not answer to the spirit of the Bard . The season was gloomy , and unpropitious to the culti- vation of the ornaments and elegancies of a polished nation . Few , very few , of that party who gained the lead at ...
... spirit of the times did not answer to the spirit of the Bard . The season was gloomy , and unpropitious to the culti- vation of the ornaments and elegancies of a polished nation . Few , very few , of that party who gained the lead at ...
Page xi
... spirit survived him and still spoke in his writings . Or , could their enmity originate in chagrin that so great a Name was to be counted among their opponents ? I am at a loss to devise any other ascribable mo- tives for the merciless ...
... spirit survived him and still spoke in his writings . Or , could their enmity originate in chagrin that so great a Name was to be counted among their opponents ? I am at a loss to devise any other ascribable mo- tives for the merciless ...
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antient AREOPAGITICA Areopagus argument Aristophanes Athens atque authority Authour autres Ben Jonson better bien Bishop Books c'est cause censure Church Cicero civil common Court Discourse divine Doctrine doit edit Eloquence England English Epicurus être Euripides Evill faut favour Freedom Government Greece Greek hath Hist hommes honour Imprimatur Isocrates jamais Johnson Knowlege l'on la presse labour language Latin Laws Learning Libel Liberty Licencing livres Lord Lost Maseres means ment mihi MILTON mind Ministers n'est Nation never opinion Oration Pamphlet Paradise Lost Parliament Parliament of England passage peuple peut Plato Plautus Poems Poet Poetry praise Prelats Press printed prose qu'elle qu'il qu'on quæ quod racter Reason Reformation Religion remark Roman Rome s'il sans elle sects sense Shakspeare Smectymnuus Sophron Speech spirit things thought tion tout Tract Truth vérité verse Vertue vindication word writing καὶ
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Page 145 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 146 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 134 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page vi - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 78 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appeared, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoiled, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me...
Page 154 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Page xvii - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 99 - Arch-Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 9 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 278 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.