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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... Shakespeare , et sur Monsieur de Voltaire ; p . 146. 8vo . 1777 . Non nostrum munus tantas componere lites . But I must not pass it over that MILTON called Pulci's work a " Romanze " to distinguish that it was a poetical composition ...
... Shakespeare , et sur Monsieur de Voltaire ; p . 146. 8vo . 1777 . Non nostrum munus tantas componere lites . But I must not pass it over that MILTON called Pulci's work a " Romanze " to distinguish that it was a poetical composition ...
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... Shakespeare ; Ant . and Cleop . A. 3. S. 11 . " But when we in our viciousness grow hard , " ( O misery on't ! ) the wise Gods seal our eyes . " " A noise of Musicians anciently signified a concert or company " of them . " ( See the ...
... Shakespeare ; Ant . and Cleop . A. 3. S. 11 . " But when we in our viciousness grow hard , " ( O misery on't ! ) the wise Gods seal our eyes . " " A noise of Musicians anciently signified a concert or company " of them . " ( See the ...
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... Shakespeare's are the Sonnets of this Poet . 5 Those very times when that Court did the rest of those her pious works , for which she is now fall'n from the starres with Lucifer . ] Lord Somers , speaking of the Star - Chamber , said ...
... Shakespeare's are the Sonnets of this Poet . 5 Those very times when that Court did the rest of those her pious works , for which she is now fall'n from the starres with Lucifer . ] Lord Somers , speaking of the Star - Chamber , said ...
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... Shakespeare , it is asserted , has in part traced from it the outline of the plot for his Two Gentlemen of Verona . In Spain it was a favourite Volume . When Cervantes supposes it to have been found in the Knight of La Mancha's Library ...
... Shakespeare , it is asserted , has in part traced from it the outline of the plot for his Two Gentlemen of Verona . In Spain it was a favourite Volume . When Cervantes supposes it to have been found in the Knight of La Mancha's Library ...
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... Shakespeare , VI . 102. ed . 1793. This passage perplexed Farmer , who ven- tures on a conjectural emendation ; and doubts not this should be " your feature ! Lord warrant us ! " what's feature ? " While Steevens , by offering different ...
... Shakespeare , VI . 102. ed . 1793. This passage perplexed Farmer , who ven- tures on a conjectural emendation ; and doubts not this should be " your feature ! Lord warrant us ! " what's feature ? " While Steevens , by offering different ...
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Page 153 - Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, 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 154 - 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 88 - 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 despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 65 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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Page 173 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
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Page 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Page 109 - 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 195 - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident...