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... few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Prefaces , we hope the public will approve ! of our republishing thefe strictures on the Doctor's account of Milton , in a form to which may be had an easier and more general access .
... few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Prefaces , we hope the public will approve ! of our republishing thefe strictures on the Doctor's account of Milton , in a form to which may be had an easier and more general access .
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... contraft with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , " that Shakespeare could have wrote like Milton , but Milton could never have " wrote like Shakespeare . " Does not the Doctor here overturn his own metaphyfical fyftem ?
... contraft with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , " that Shakespeare could have wrote like Milton , but Milton could never have " wrote like Shakespeare . " Does not the Doctor here overturn his own metaphyfical fyftem ?
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Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the character of Waller ; " but , in my own opinion , I have rather " over - rated it . " He has however made ample amends for this lenity ...
Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the character of Waller ; " but , in my own opinion , I have rather " over - rated it . " He has however made ample amends for this lenity ...
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It was Waller's misfortune ( a misfortune only in the scale of Dr. Johnfon ) to be born of a mother who was fifter to the illuftrious patriot John Hampden , whom the Doctor calls the zealot of rebellion , by the fame figure of fpeech ...
It was Waller's misfortune ( a misfortune only in the scale of Dr. Johnfon ) to be born of a mother who was fifter to the illuftrious patriot John Hampden , whom the Doctor calls the zealot of rebellion , by the fame figure of fpeech ...
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When the Doctor found , on fome late occafions , that his crude abufe and mali . d ! cious criticisms would not bring down Milton to the degree of contempt with the public which he had affigned him in the scale of profe - writers ...
When the Doctor found , on fome late occafions , that his crude abufe and mali . d ! cious criticisms would not bring down Milton to the degree of contempt with the public which he had affigned him in the scale of profe - writers ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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