In 1893 the licenser of plays refused a licence to Wilde's Salome, but it was produced in French in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt in 1894.   anvd [Please select]

Masson, that the author of the _Areopagitica_, at a later time, acted himself in the capacity of licenser.   anvd [Please select]

For licenser there was now, the Archbishop of Canterbury to wit, for religious literature.   anvd [Please select]

But this was, after all, rather in the character of editor, whose business it is to see that nothing improper goes into the paper, than in that of press licenser in the sense in which the _Areopagitica_ had denounced it.   anvd [Please select]