Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica1780 - 381 pages |
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... should be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnson's Pre- faces , we hope the public will ...
... should be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnson's Pre- faces , we hope the public will ...
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... should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute snarlers , or spumose declam- ers against the sentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceased to be regarded , till the maxims ...
... should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute snarlers , or spumose declam- ers against the sentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceased to be regarded , till the maxims ...
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... should not ripen into appetite , particu- larly for Milton's works , whose reputa- tion he had formerly taken so much ele- gant pains to depreciate . The fource of his disaffection to Milton's principles can B be be no fecret to those ...
... should not ripen into appetite , particu- larly for Milton's works , whose reputa- tion he had formerly taken so much ele- gant pains to depreciate . The fource of his disaffection to Milton's principles can B be be no fecret to those ...
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... should re- quest to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
... should re- quest to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
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... should have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the study of the abstruser sciences , but even in the elemental acquisitions of reading or spelling . : " We are therefore ...
... should have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the study of the abstruser sciences , but even in the elemental acquisitions of reading or spelling . : " We are therefore ...
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Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. to Which Are Added, Milton's Tractate ... Francis Blackburne No preview available - 2015 |
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