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Erotica Romana

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

...ate classical Roman elegy writers such as Tibullus, Propertius, and Catullus, von Goethe creates a lyrical work of art that has often been subject to censorship. (Summary by Adam E. Maroney)...

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Ann Veronica a Modern Love Story

By: H. G. Wells

...rature and art. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited... ...et.” Mr. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. “There ought to be a Censorship of Books. We want it badly at the present time. Even with the Ce... ...ut avoided dexterously; and they talked chiefly of letters and art and the censorship of the English stage. Mr. Stanley was inclined to think the cens...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y of the Equites. These were classes who would have been dishonored by the censorship of a less august comptroller. And, for the classes below these,—... ...g the revival of the ancient but neces- sarily obsolete office of a public censorship. Either it was an act of pure verbal pedantry, or a mere titular... ...ng fac- ulty,) or else, if it really meant to revive the old duties of the censorship, and to assign the very same field for the exercise of those dut...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...ll be this superiority of our women which enables us to pit a woman at—the censorship will object to exact geography upon this point—against a man at ... ...o not even trouble to mitigate the inevitable exasperation of the military censorship by an intelligent and tactful control. The German Government, on...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...es all the Allied peoples. These people are permitted to deny—our peculiar censorship does not hamper them— loudly and publicly that we are fighting f...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

... of the libretto, if it be Caesar’s! It has passed 23 George Meredith the censorship, signed Agostino Balderini—a disaffected person out of Piedmont,... ...inally, my friends, Camilla is something for you to digest at leisure. The censorship swal- lowed it at a gulp. Never was bait so handsomely taken! At... ...“It’s transparent to any but asses,” said Carlo. “But if it has passed the censorship? You are guilty, my boy, of bestowing upon those highly discipli... ...inently so, I must add, if you will look lofty. If my opera has passed the censorship! eh, what have you to say?” Carlo endured this banter till the e... ...Lebruno. Doubtless they would have seen this before, but that the Austrian censorship had seemed so absolute a safeguard. ‘My children! all are my chi... ...ng is not written or printed. What is in the book cannot harm you, for the censorship has passed it; and surely I alone am responsible for singing wha...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...c- cord. A judicial functionary who should open proceedings, and usurp the censorship of the laws, would in some mea- sure do violence to the passive ... ...cial functionaries. It will readily be un- derstood that by connecting the censorship of the laws with the private interests of members of the communi... ...fes- sion as a magistrate. It is true that upon this system the judi- cial censorship which is exercised by the courts of justice over the legislation... ... little to attain your end; you must therefore proceed. If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make i... ...h the doctrine of the sover- eignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd. When the r... ...ss may there- fore be looked upon as correlative institutions; just as the censorship of the press and universal suffrage are two things which are irr... ... respects, have nevertheless subjected their dramatic authors to a sort of censorship. Theatrical performances can only take place by permission of th... ...ican colonies: an attempt was made to es- tablish something analogous to a censorship and prelimi- nary security. Consult the Legislative Documents of...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...and dripping. “You (un- profitable matter, and printing it would lead to a censorship of novels)! You know I got a weak chess!” The pole took him in t...

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...erri, than Charles X. pretended to do in July, 1830. If the section on the censorship so foolishly introduced into the new charter had been omitted, j...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...en- sor, an office in those days of great repute and authority. During his censorship one very good act of his is recorded, that, whereas the wars had... ...led by his own name, the Porcian. However, the people, it seems, liked his censorship wondrously well; for, setting up a statue for him in the temple ... ... ing that account of the matter. However, this is certain; Cato during his censorship, made a severe scrutiny into the senators’ lives in order to the... ...enate." This is what was memorable in Crassus's consulship, but as for his censorship, that was altogether idle and inactive, for he neither made a sc...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...to think for himself, and speak for himself, without humble reference to a censorship which, for its rampant ignorance and base American Notes – Dick...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

... I was not so secure. And the result did not entirely encourage my plan of censorship. Janet did indeed seriously incline to the account of my previou...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...id not naturally care for books and thus never troubled her head about the censorship which was exercised first by her aunts, later by her father. Fri...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...n been made to him of a suspension of the privilege of habeas corpus, of a censorship of the press, or of martial law, the American would have declare...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...from him any other than the most obliging conde- scensions relative to the censorship, and I knew that he had 495 Rousseau more than once very severe...

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...te. Literature, politics, men and women, all alike were submit- ted to her censorship, and the lady herself appeared to defy the censorship of others....

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...ience. It was a disagreeable impression. But I reflected that probably the censorship of plays was an inactive mon- strosity; not exactly a survival, ...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ore than they do. Unfortunately such instances as we have had of voluntary censorship will qualify the reader’s assent to this proposition. Another ob...

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