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About the time that specimen was clofed Dr. Johnson's New Narrative was thrown in the way of the editors , and could not be overlooked without leaving fome of the more candid and capable judges of Milton's profe - writings to fuffer by ...
About the time that specimen was clofed Dr. Johnson's New Narrative was thrown in the way of the editors , and could not be overlooked without leaving fome of the more candid and capable judges of Milton's profe - writings to fuffer by ...
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A In January 1758 he releafed himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the public his POETICAL SCALE , the particulars of which , fave what relates to Milton , we leave to the ...
A In January 1758 he releafed himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the public his POETICAL SCALE , the particulars of which , fave what relates to Milton , we leave to the ...
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Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the fcale of poetical merit , which perhaps at the bottom may amount to no more than that Milton could not make a faddle , or dance upon the 66 1 * the rope . But this too we leave [ 5 ]
Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the fcale of poetical merit , which perhaps at the bottom may amount to no more than that Milton could not make a faddle , or dance upon the 66 1 * the rope . But this too we leave [ 5 ]
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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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The ftudents in Milton's academy ( being the fons of men of like spirit and principles with their mafter ) would not , upon leaving his boarding - fchool , vapour away their patriotifm in writing books ; but proceed to scenes of action ...
The ftudents in Milton's academy ( being the fons of men of like spirit and principles with their mafter ) would not , upon leaving his boarding - fchool , vapour away their patriotifm in writing books ; but proceed to scenes of action ...
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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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