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arifes from imagination getting the " better of judgment ; the latter from " babit getting the better of imagination . " Shakespeare's faults were those of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little " pedant . When Shakespeare is execra ...
arifes from imagination getting the " better of judgment ; the latter from " babit getting the better of imagination . " Shakespeare's faults were those of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little " pedant . When Shakespeare is execra ...
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But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we fhould requeft 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 ...
But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we fhould requeft 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 ...
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judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , müft have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , müft have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
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... if every murmurer at go" vernment may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there 66 can be no religion . " 66 Is it not better that power fhould be ' the Is £ 60 ] } .
... if every murmurer at go" vernment may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there 66 can be no religion . " 66 Is it not better that power fhould be ' the Is £ 60 ] } .
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Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
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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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