Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and AreopagiticaVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 - 381 pages |
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... better of judgment ; the latter from " babit getting the better of imagination . " Shakespeare's faults were thofe of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little " pedant . When Shakespeare is execra " ble he is fo exquifitely fo , that ...
... better of judgment ; the latter from " babit getting the better of imagination . " Shakespeare's faults were thofe of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little " pedant . When Shakespeare is execra " ble he is fo exquifitely fo , that ...
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... better of imagination ; remarking only ' for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to reproach Milton for his pedantry is certainly betraying a ftrange uncon- Iciousness of his own talents , unless he depends upon his reader's ...
... better of imagination ; remarking only ' for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to reproach Milton for his pedantry is certainly betraying a ftrange uncon- Iciousness of his own talents , unless he depends upon his reader's ...
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... better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- speare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the ...
... better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- speare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the ...
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... difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there " can be no religion . " Is it not better that power fhould be the ftandard Is £ 60 1 "If nothing may be published but ...
... difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there " can be no religion . " Is it not better that power fhould be the ftandard Is £ 60 1 "If nothing may be published but ...
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Francis Blackburne. Is it not better that power fhould be the ftandard of truth , than that we fhould ' have no fettlement , no peace , no reli- gion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr ...
Francis Blackburne. Is it not better that power fhould be the ftandard of truth , than that we fhould ' have no fettlement , no peace , no reli- gion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr ...
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