"Censor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so good indeed, that we lament, as we gaze at it, that he does not know how to spell. A man may certainly be a 'Genious' without being able to write a clerkly hand; but a man who is not a 'Genious,' ought at least to be able to spell the word. As to writing 'too carefully,' our censor has mistaken the letter for the spirit of our remarks. . . . THE lines 'To my Mother' are replete with the poetry of feeling. Their literary execution however is marred by deficiencies, which although ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various
... Analytical, perusing a scrap of paper lying on the salver, with the air of a literary Censor, adjusts it, takes his time about going to the table with it, and presents it to Mr Eugene Wrayburn. Whereupon the pleasant Tippins says aloud, ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... me make the point clear; for it is the crucial point in the discussion of the modern Bookstall Censorship. A great deal may be said against setting up a censorship of literature. A great deal may be said in favor of a censorship. But if a censorship there must be, the censor should be deliberately chosen for his office, and, in exercising his power, should be directly responsible to the public conscience. If a censorship there must be, let the community choose a man whose qualifications have been weighed, ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... place in the previous triennial examination, and had, by this time, already risen to the rank of Director of the Court of Censors. He was a native of K Su. He had been recently named by Imperial appointment a Censor attached to the Salt Inspectorate, and had arrived at his post ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... strangers in Rome by degrees had grown so numerous, and to have so great a vote in the councils, that the whole Government began to totter, and decline from its old to its new inhabitants, which Fabius the censor observing, he applied a remedy in time by reducing all the new citizens into four tribes, that being contracted into so narrow a space, they might not have so malignant an influence upon ...
— Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic • Sir William Petty
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