... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 páginas |
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... turn , joined in clogging the Prefs , in curtailing the new power that God in His Providence had bestowed upon mankind . Dr. Johnson , in his Life of Milton — which , either for wilful mifreprefentation or crafs incapacity to ap ...
... turn , joined in clogging the Prefs , in curtailing the new power that God in His Providence had bestowed upon mankind . Dr. Johnson , in his Life of Milton — which , either for wilful mifreprefentation or crafs incapacity to ap ...
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... , as that they are not thought fit to be turn'd loose to three sheets of paper without a licencer , that all the Sermons , all the Lectures preacht , printed , vented in fuch numbers , and fuch volumes , as AREOPAGITICA . 59.
... , as that they are not thought fit to be turn'd loose to three sheets of paper without a licencer , that all the Sermons , all the Lectures preacht , printed , vented in fuch numbers , and fuch volumes , as AREOPAGITICA . 59.
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... turns herself into all shapes , except her own , and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time , as Micaiah did before Ahab , untill the be adjur'd into her own likenes . Yet is it not impoffible that she may have more shapes then ...
... turns herself into all shapes , except her own , and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time , as Micaiah did before Ahab , untill the be adjur'd into her own likenes . Yet is it not impoffible that she may have more shapes then ...
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... turn in the course of life . My lord Fairfax had part of his estate , about £ 5000 per ann . allotted him by the par ... turning abruptly from him in the gallery at Whitehall , cocking his hat , and So in the orig . throwing his cloak ...
... turn in the course of life . My lord Fairfax had part of his estate , about £ 5000 per ann . allotted him by the par ... turning abruptly from him in the gallery at Whitehall , cocking his hat , and So in the orig . throwing his cloak ...
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... turning all things into ridicule with bold figures and natural descriptions . He had no sort of literature : Only he was drawn into chymistry : And for some years he thought he was very near the finding the philosopher's stone : which ...
... turning all things into ridicule with bold figures and natural descriptions . He had no sort of literature : Only he was drawn into chymistry : And for some years he thought he was very near the finding the philosopher's stone : which ...
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...