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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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Bafire Se REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S Life of MILTON . WE were in hope that we had done with Milton's Biographers ; and had little forefight that fo accomplished an artificer of B of language would have condefcended to bring up the rear 68 ...
Bafire Se REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S Life of MILTON . WE were in hope that we had done with Milton's Biographers ; and had little forefight that fo accomplished an artificer of B of language would have condefcended to bring up the rear 68 ...
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Accordingly he laid by his project for about two years , when he might reafonably hope his manœuvres , under the hide of Lauder , would be forgotten , or laid afleep by a fucceffion of that variety of entertainment which 整 which the ...
Accordingly he laid by his project for about two years , when he might reafonably hope his manœuvres , under the hide of Lauder , would be forgotten , or laid afleep by a fucceffion of that variety of entertainment which 整 which the ...
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diftant , and which is animated only " by faith and hope , will glide by degrees out of the mind , unless it be in- . 1 " C vigorated and reimpreffed by external " ordinances , by stated calls to worship , " and the falutary influence ...
diftant , and which is animated only " by faith and hope , will glide by degrees out of the mind , unless it be in- . 1 " C vigorated and reimpreffed by external " ordinances , by stated calls to worship , " and the falutary influence ...
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But if it is natural to hope this , why not hope it of Milton as well as of Dryden ? Where is the competent impartial judge who will admit , that Milton's foul was lefs com prehenfive or less elevated than the foul of Dryden ?
But if it is natural to hope this , why not hope it of Milton as well as of Dryden ? Where is the competent impartial judge who will admit , that Milton's foul was lefs com prehenfive or less elevated than the foul of Dryden ?
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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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