Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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... acquifitions of reading or fpelling . " We are therefore , " continues the critic , " to confider him in one fixed " point of light , that of a great poet , C " with 66 46 " with a laudable envy of rivalling , " eclipfing [ 17 ]
... acquifitions of reading or fpelling . " We are therefore , " continues the critic , " to confider him in one fixed " point of light , that of a great poet , C " with 66 46 " with a laudable envy of rivalling , " eclipfing [ 17 ]
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Immediately however the critic withdraws Milton from this fixed point of light , and places his fublimity of fentiment and description in contraft with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , " that Shakespeare could have wrote ...
Immediately however the critic withdraws Milton from this fixed point of light , and places his fublimity of fentiment and description in contraft with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , " that Shakespeare could have wrote ...
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... yet might be worth many confiderations , if brevity had not bean my fcope , many other circumftances alfo I could have mention'd , but this to fuch as have the worth in them to make triall , for light and direction may be anough .
... yet might be worth many confiderations , if brevity had not bean my fcope , many other circumftances alfo I could have mention'd , but this to fuch as have the worth in them to make triall , for light and direction may be anough .
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... Preface to recommend this admirable defence of the best of human rights , to any one who has ever heard of the DIVINE MILTON and it is impoffible to produce better arguments , or to fer them in a more convincing , awakening light .
... Preface to recommend this admirable defence of the best of human rights , to any one who has ever heard of the DIVINE MILTON and it is impoffible to produce better arguments , or to fer them in a more convincing , awakening light .
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For what else spreads light , or diffuses knowledge through the world ? But it seems , as a sense of the value of health is fometimes loft in the midst of its full enjoyment ; fo men , through a habit of liberty , may become infenfible ...
For what else spreads light , or diffuses knowledge through the world ? But it seems , as a sense of the value of health is fometimes loft in the midst of its full enjoyment ; fo men , through a habit of liberty , may become infenfible ...
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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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