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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... passed in 1647 for the total suppression of Plays and Inter- ludes . Notwithstanding MILTON's various and strong claims on the veneration of his country , it can have been the fate of few , perhaps of no man , who , thrown upon a period ...
... passed in 1647 for the total suppression of Plays and Inter- ludes . Notwithstanding MILTON's various and strong claims on the veneration of his country , it can have been the fate of few , perhaps of no man , who , thrown upon a period ...
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... passed for precedents , from which ar- guments of great force might be deduced . Now the case is greatly altered . They would inevitably disparage any modern production , as an idle and ambitious vanity to display that sort of reading ...
... passed for precedents , from which ar- guments of great force might be deduced . Now the case is greatly altered . They would inevitably disparage any modern production , as an idle and ambitious vanity to display that sort of reading ...
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... passed away . We begin to make some retribution for slight and neglect : his Prose has at length forced itself so far into notice that it is read , and sometimes quoted . Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependet . The gradually ...
... passed away . We begin to make some retribution for slight and neglect : his Prose has at length forced itself so far into notice that it is read , and sometimes quoted . Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependet . The gradually ...
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... and if , as in this defence of an unlicensed Press , the theme were of per- manent and vital importance , he was a spec- tator of the striking and extraordinary scenes continually passing before THE PRESENT EDITOR . lxiii.
... and if , as in this defence of an unlicensed Press , the theme were of per- manent and vital importance , he was a spec- tator of the striking and extraordinary scenes continually passing before THE PRESENT EDITOR . lxiii.
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... passing before him , of a com- plexion much too ardent for his thoughts to escape all tinge from them , which now darkening his sense renders elucidation ac- ceptable . Exclusive , moreover , of phraseo- logy which the mutations of ...
... passing before him , of a com- plexion much too ardent for his thoughts to escape all tinge from them , which now darkening his sense renders elucidation ac- ceptable . Exclusive , moreover , of phraseo- logy which the mutations of ...
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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 edit Eloquence England English Epicurus être Euripides Evill favour Freedom Government Greece Greek hath Hist hommes honour Imprimatur Isocrates jamais Johnson Knowlege l'on la presse labours language Latin Learning Libel Liberty Licencing livres Lord Lost MASERES means ment mihi MILTON mind n'est Nation never observed opinion Oration Pamphlet Paradise Lost Parliament Parliament of England passage perhaps peut Plato Plautus Poems Poet Poetry praise Prelats Press prose qu'elle qu'il qu'on quæ quod racter Reason Reformation Religion remark Roman Rome s'il sects sense Shakspeare Sir Walter Ralegh Smectymnuus Sophron Speech spirit things thought tion tout Tract Truth vérité verse Vertue vindication wherein whereof word writing written καὶ
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Page 156 - 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 155 - 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 17 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 64 - He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian.
Page 88 - 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 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.
Page vi - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Page 18 - Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature. God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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 - Less than archangel 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.