 | G. M. G. - 1908 - Počet stránok 168
...photograph by Marie Leon. THE STAGE CENSOR AN HISTORICAL SKETCH: 1552-1907 CHAPTER I THE TUDOR CENSOR If poets and players are to be restrained, let them...subjects are, by the known laws of their country. — LORD CHESTERFIELD. ONSIDERED from the historical point of view, there is no greater curiosity than... | |
 | Kolachelam Rao S. - 1986 - Počet stránok 342
...person, the king's courts are open ; the law is sufficient to punish the offender. If poets and playrrs are to be restrained, let them be restrained as other subjects are, by the known laws of their country and if they offend, do not let us subject them to the arbitrary will and pleasure of any one man. A... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - Počet stránok 320
...Chesterfield, if the law were not sufficient as it stood, Walpole's Censorship was not the remedy. " If poets and players are to be restrained, let them...ought to be, by God and their country. Do not let us submit them to the arbitrary will and pleasure of any one man. A power lodged in the hands of one single... | |
 | 1921 - Počet stránok 878
...a bad play. The final word was spoken in 1737 by Chesterfield. The essence of all argument is here: "If poets and players are to be restrained, let them...ought to be, by God and their Country. Do not let us submit them to the arbitrary will and pleasure of any one man." To prove the truth of Chesterfield's... | |
 | 1925 - Počet stránok 138
...infamous libel to be printed and dispersed, only because it does not bear the title of a play ? . . . If poets and players are to be restrained, let them...pleasure of any one man. A power lodged in the hands of one single man, .to judge and determine, without any limitation, without any control or appeal, is... | |
 | Horace Meyer Kallen - 1928 - Počet stránok 326
...their other duties, is a crucial one. Lord Chesterfield in opposing Walpole's original act exclaimed: "If poets and players are to be restrained, let them...every Englishman ought to be by God and their country. Let us not subject them to the arbitrary will and pleasure of a single man." But the case is not entirely... | |
 | James Woodfield - 1984 - Počet stránok 232
...Chamberlain. In a speech opposing the bill, Lord Chesterfield, echoing Milton's Aneopagitica, declaimed: If Poets and Players are to be restrained, let them...Pleasure of any one Man. A Power lodged in the hands of one single Man, to judge and determine, without any Limitation, without any Controul or Appeal, is... | |
 | Michelene Wandor - 2001 - Počet stránok 292
...Chesterfield argued vainly against it in a majestic and permanently valid speech to the House of Lords: If Poets and Players are to be restrained, let them...Pleasure of any one Man. A Power lodged in the hands of one single Man, to judge and determine, without any Limitation, without any Control or Appeal, is a... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 2003 - Počet stránok 824
...from granting, yet I shall never be for establishing such a Power as is proposed by this Bill. If Poet and Players are to be restrained, let them be restrained...Pleasure of any one Man. A Power lodged in the Hands of one single Man, to judge and determine, without any Limitation, without any Controul or Appeal, is... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - Počet stránok 400
...far from granting, yet I shall never be for establishing such a Power as is proposed by this Bill. If Poets and Players are to be restrained, let them...Pleasure of any one Man. A Power lodged in the Hands of one single Man, to judge and determine, without any Limitation, without any Controul or Appeal, is... | |
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If poets and players are to be restrained, let them be restrained as other subjects are, by the known laws of their country ; if they offend, let them be tried as every Englishman ought to be, by God and their country. Do not let us subject them to the... 
