 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...our laws we can hang athief. •. .-. . . : But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin and Englifh poems appeared, in which tke Allegro and Penferofo, with fome others, were firft publifhed.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...becaufc writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to fleep with doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domcftick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this MILTON.' 47 time (1645) a collection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...unreftrained, becaufe writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to deep with doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a co^~ le&ion of his Latin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...becaufe writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to fleep with doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftie, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...becaufe writers may be afterwards ccnfured, than it would be to fleep*with doors doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (i645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin and Englim poems appeared, in which the Allegro and Penferofo, with fome others, were firft publifhed.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...becaufe writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to fleep with doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...becaufe writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to fleep with doors unbolted, becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collecti on on of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...unbolted, becaufe by our Jaws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domeitick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin and Englifh poems appeared, in which the Allegro and Penferofo, with fome others, were firft publifted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave ih-e right of printing unrestrained because writers may...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. Life of Milton« OCCASSIONAL PUBLICATIONS. There is, perhaps, no nation in which it is so necessary... | |
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... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment,... 
