... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 páginas |
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Página 49
... she gets a free and willing hand , opens her felf faster , then the pace of method and difcours can overtake her . It was the task which I began with , To shew that no Nation , or well instituted State , if they valu'd books at all ...
... she gets a free and willing hand , opens her felf faster , then the pace of method and difcours can overtake her . It was the task which I began with , To shew that no Nation , or well instituted State , if they valu'd books at all ...
Página 74
... do not bind her when the fleeps , for then she speaks not true , as the old Proteus did , who ( pake oracles only when he was caught and bound , but then 74 AREOPAGITICA . The origin, inventors and object of Book licen- cing,
... do not bind her when the fleeps , for then she speaks not true , as the old Proteus did , who ( pake oracles only when he was caught and bound , but then 74 AREOPAGITICA . The origin, inventors and object of Book licen- cing,
Página 75
... she may have more shapes then one . What elfe is all that rank of things indifferent , wherein Truth may be on this fide , or on the other , without being unlike her felf . What but a vain shadow elfe is the abolition of those ordi ...
... she may have more shapes then one . What elfe is all that rank of things indifferent , wherein Truth may be on this fide , or on the other , without being unlike her felf . What but a vain shadow elfe is the abolition of those ordi ...
Página 79
... she is now fall'n from the Starres with Lucifer . Whereby ye may guesse what kinde of State prudence , what love of the people , what care of Religion , or good manners there was at the contriv- ing , although with fingular hypocrifie ...
... she is now fall'n from the Starres with Lucifer . Whereby ye may guesse what kinde of State prudence , what love of the people , what care of Religion , or good manners there was at the contriv- ing , although with fingular hypocrifie ...
Página 6
... she confessed it was more than all her servants before had done . The duke had reason to hope my lord had the same inclinations as to this estate of his , which he never accounted his own , and the duke wanted it as much as the countess ...
... she confessed it was more than all her servants before had done . The duke had reason to hope my lord had the same inclinations as to this estate of his , which he never accounted his own , and the duke wanted it as much as the countess ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid againſt alſo Angels anſwer Author BAYES beautiful becauſe befides beſt Biſhops Book buſineſs call'd cauſe Chriftian Church Circumftance Clergy Court Criticks deſcribed Deſcription diſcover Dryden Duke of Buckingham edition elſe England English faid fame felf felves feveral fhall fhew fince firft firſt fome fomething ftill fuch fure give greateſt hath Heaven himſelf Homer Honour Houſe Iliad John Selden JOHNS juſt King laſt leaſt licencing London Lord Love Maſter meaſure Milton moft moſt muſt Nature never obferve otherwiſe Paffage Parliament perfons Play pleaſe Poem Poet pray prefent Prince printed puniſhment purpoſe queſtion raiſe Reader reaſon Rehearsal Religion repreſented ſay ſee Selden ſelf ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtill ſuch tell thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought truth Tyrannick Love underſtand uſe Villiers whofe whole William Davenant writ write
Pasajes populares
Página 35 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 45 - 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.
Página 10 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 69 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Página 12 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 113 - ... 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 after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 71 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 67 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 54 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Página 56 - ... writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book ? The printer dares not go beyond his...