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... hands . Many more instances might be quoted , but these are sufficient to illustrate the working of the press regulations in Milton's time . Milton's prose style is singularly vigorous and eloquent . ' His works , ' says Macaulay ...
... hands . Many more instances might be quoted , but these are sufficient to illustrate the working of the press regulations in Milton's time . Milton's prose style is singularly vigorous and eloquent . ' His works , ' says Macaulay ...
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... hand , he uses the apostrophe to mark the suppression of e in the plural of nouns whose singular ends in a vowel ; thus , dimbo , limbo's ( p . 28 ) , balcone , balcone's ( p . 39 ) . Silent , and therefore , in Milton's theory , unne ...
... hand , he uses the apostrophe to mark the suppression of e in the plural of nouns whose singular ends in a vowel ; thus , dimbo , limbo's ( p . 28 ) , balcone , balcone's ( p . 39 ) . Silent , and therefore , in Milton's theory , unne ...
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... hand unlesse warinesse be us'd , as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book ; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature , God's Image ; but he who destroyes a good Booke , kills Reason itselfe , kills the Image of God , as it were ...
... hand unlesse warinesse be us'd , as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book ; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature , God's Image ; but he who destroyes a good Booke , kills Reason itselfe , kills the Image of God , as it were ...
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... after the year 800 , is observed by Padre Paolo , the great unmasker of the Trentine Councel . After which time the Popes of Rome engrossing what they C pleas'd of politicall rule into their owne hands , extended MILTON'S AREOPAGITICA . 25.
... after the year 800 , is observed by Padre Paolo , the great unmasker of the Trentine Councel . After which time the Popes of Rome engrossing what they C pleas'd of politicall rule into their owne hands , extended MILTON'S AREOPAGITICA . 25.
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... hands , extended their dominion over men's eyes , as they had before over their judgments , burning and prohibiting to be read what they fansied not ; yet sparing in their censures , and the Books not many which they so dealt with ...
... hands , extended their dominion over men's eyes , as they had before over their judgments , burning and prohibiting to be read what they fansied not ; yet sparing in their censures , and the Books not many which they so dealt with ...
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Página 21 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. 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.
Página 59 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 22 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Página 7 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
Página 21 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 34 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Página 40 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress: foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Página 65 - 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? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Página 33 - 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 f heat.
Página 33 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably;) and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...