The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 - Essays |
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Page 54
... English adjective lenten to Milton as a pedantic intrusion of his own on our language . I find it in the " Ordi- nary , " one of Cartwright's comedies : - " But Quadragesimal wits and fancies lean As Ember weeks . " Quadragesimal ...
... English adjective lenten to Milton as a pedantic intrusion of his own on our language . I find it in the " Ordi- nary , " one of Cartwright's comedies : - " But Quadragesimal wits and fancies lean As Ember weeks . " Quadragesimal ...
Page 61
... English , the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty , will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished . And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book ...
... English , the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty , will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished . And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book ...
Page 69
... so fine a feeling for what- ever is excellent , that scarcely any but good works survive ; contempt and neglect at length overwhelm all others . - ED . ward , while our Spanish licensing gags the English press AREOPAGITICA . 69.
... so fine a feeling for what- ever is excellent , that scarcely any but good works survive ; contempt and neglect at length overwhelm all others . - ED . ward , while our Spanish licensing gags the English press AREOPAGITICA . 69.
Page 70
... English press never so severely . But , on the other side , that infection which is from books of controversy in religion , is more doubtful and dangerous to the learned than to the ignorant ; and yet those books must be permitted ...
... English press never so severely . But , on the other side , that infection which is from books of controversy in religion , is more doubtful and dangerous to the learned than to the ignorant ; and yet those books must be permitted ...
Page 80
... church , I sup- pose that wherever mention is made of countries , manners , or men , the English people , among the first that shall be praised , may deserve to be twenty capacities , how good soever ; much less that 80 AREOPAGITICA.
... church , I sup- pose that wherever mention is made of countries , manners , or men , the English people , among the first that shall be praised , may deserve to be twenty capacities , how good soever ; much less that 80 AREOPAGITICA.
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