... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 páginas |
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Página 44
... Reader ferve in many respects to discover , to confute , to forewarn , and to illuftrate . Whereof what better witnes can ye expect I should produce , then one of your own now fitting in Parlament , the chief of learned men reputed in ...
... Reader ferve in many respects to discover , to confute , to forewarn , and to illuftrate . Whereof what better witnes can ye expect I should produce , then one of your own now fitting in Parlament , the chief of learned men reputed in ...
Página 46
... reader : And ask a Talmudeft what ails the modefty of his marginall Keri , that Mofes and all the Prophets cannot perfwade him to pronounce the tex- tuall Chetiv . For thefe caufes we all know the Bible it felfe put by the Papift into ...
... reader : And ask a Talmudeft what ails the modefty of his marginall Keri , that Mofes and all the Prophets cannot perfwade him to pronounce the tex- tuall Chetiv . For thefe caufes we all know the Bible it felfe put by the Papift into ...
Página 54
... reader of unchofen books and pamphlets , oftimes huge volumes . There is no book that is accept- able unleffe at certain seasons ; but to be enjoyn'd the reading of that at all times , and in a hand scars legible , whereof three pages ...
... reader of unchofen books and pamphlets , oftimes huge volumes . There is no book that is accept- able unleffe at certain seasons ; but to be enjoyn'd the reading of that at all times , and in a hand scars legible , whereof three pages ...
Página 57
... reader upon the first fight of a pedantick licence , will be ready with these like words to ding the book a coits distance from him , I hate a pupil teacher , I endure not an inftructer that comes to me under the wardship of an ...
... reader upon the first fight of a pedantick licence , will be ready with these like words to ding the book a coits distance from him , I hate a pupil teacher , I endure not an inftructer that comes to me under the wardship of an ...
Página 12
... Reader wou'd be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The Character of Zimri in my Absalom , is , in my Opinion , worth the whole Poem : Tis not bloody , but ' tis ridiculous enough . And he for whom it was intended , was too witty to ...
... Reader wou'd be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The Character of Zimri in my Absalom , is , in my Opinion , worth the whole Poem : Tis not bloody , but ' tis ridiculous enough . And he for whom it was intended , was too witty to ...
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...