Three Speeches Delivered in the House of Commons in Favour of a Measure for an Extension of CopyrightE. Moxon, 1840 - 148 pagina's |
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adjourned affection amend the law Archibald Alison argument benefit booksellers cheap circulation claim clause committee composition consideration copies copyright bill derived discussion division enriched expire extending the term extension of copyright favour feel genius HARTLEY COLERIDGE honourable house humble petition humbly prays implores your honourable interest justice laborious labour law of copyright leave the chair literary Lord Duncannon Lord John Russell Lord Mahon measure ments motion mover nature noes object obtain opponents Parliament pecuniary period petitioner postponement prays your honourable present law principle printers printing productions Professor profit proposed protection publishers question recognise regard remuneration rendered report progress Samuel Taylor Coleridge Scotland second reading secure Serjeant Talfourd Sheweth Sir Edward Sugden Sir Robert Inglis Sir Walter Scott Solicitor-General statute of Anne subsisting supported Tegg term of copyright Thursday tion trashy and meretricious twenty-eight Warburton Wednesday
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Pagina 23 - Veart has learned to throb in the strange yet familiar solitude he created, given even the halfpenny of the statute of Anne, there would have been no want of a provision for his children, no need of a subscription for a statue to his memory...
Pagina xxi - You may fill warehouses with them, and freight ships ; and the tenure by which they are held is superior to that of all other property, for it is original. It is tenure which does not exist in a doubtful title ; which does not spring from any adventitious circumstances ; it is not found — it is not purchased — it is not prescriptive — it is original ; so it is the most natural of all titles, because it is the most simple and least artificial. It is paramount and sovereign, because it is a tenure...
Pagina 23 - Foe ; recollect him pilloried, bankrupt, wearing away his life to pay his creditors in full, and dying in the struggle! — and his works live, imitated, corrupted, yet casting off the stains, not by protection of law, but by their own pure essence. Had every school-boy, whose young imagination has been prompted by his great work, and whose heart has learned to throb in the strange, yet familiar, solitude he created, given even the halfpenny of the statute of Anne, there would have been no...
Pagina 86 - If so, why do you; protect moral character as a man's most precious possession, and compensate the party who suffers unjustly in that character by damages? Has this possession any existence half so palpable as the author's right in the printed creation of his brain? I have always thought it one of the proudest triumphs of human law that it is able to...
Pagina 24 - ... the master-spirits of his age — be felt pervading every part of the national literature, softening, raising, and enriching it ; and when at last he shall find his confidence in his own aspirations justified, and the name which once was the scorn admitted to be the glory of his age — he shall look forward to the close of his earthly career, as the event that shall consecrate his fame and deprive his children of the opening harvest he is beginning to reap.
Pagina 17 - The liberality of genius is surely ill urged as an excuse for our ungrateful denial of its rights. The late Mr. Coleridge gave an example not merely of its liberality, but of its profuseness; while he sought not even to appropriate to his fame the vast intellectual treasures which he had derived from boundless research, and coloured by a glorious imagination; while he scattered abroad the seeds of beauty and of wisdom to take root in congenial minds, and was content to witness their fruits in the...
Pagina 114 - ... hollow mockery in the ears of those whom he loves, and waking sullen echoes by the side of a cheerless hearth. For such I ask this boon, and through them for mankind — and I ask it in the confidence with the expression of which your veteran petitioner Wordsworth closed his appeal to you — " That in this, as in all other cases, justice is capable of working out its own expediency !
Pagina 143 - Annual," but as the author of their being. That the effect of the law as regards an author, is virtually to disinherit his next of kin, and cut him off with a book instead of a shilling. That your petitioner is very willing to write for posterity on the lowest terms, and would not object to the long credit, but that when his heir shall apply for payment to posterity, he will be referred back to antiquity.
Pagina 24 - ... from youth to its service; disdaining the gauds which attract the careless, and unskilled in the moving accidents of fortune — not seeking his triumph in the tempest of the passions, but in the serenity which lies above them — whose works shall be scoffed at — whose name made a by-word — and yet who shall persevere in his high and holy course, gradually impressing thoughtful minds with the sense of truth made visible in the severest forms of beauty...
Pagina 24 - Let us suppose an author of true original genius, disgusted with the inane phraseology which had usurped the place of poetry, and devoting himself from youth to its service ; disdaining the gauds which attract the careless, and unskilled in the moving accidents of fortune ; not seeking...