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... that the Doctor's remarks on fome of our best poets , particularly Milton and Waller , whofe political opinions by no * For May , 1779 . C 2 " " " means " means coincided with his own , may be thought [ ] 19. J.
... that the Doctor's remarks on fome of our best poets , particularly Milton and Waller , whofe political opinions by no * For May , 1779 . C 2 " " " means " means coincided with his own , may be thought [ ] 19. J.
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means coincided with his own , may be thought rather too severe . " It was Waller's misfortune ( a misfortune only in the scale of Dr. Johnfon ) to be born of a mother who was fifter to the illuftrious patriot John Hampden , whom the ...
means coincided with his own , may be thought rather too severe . " It was Waller's misfortune ( a misfortune only in the scale of Dr. Johnfon ) to be born of a mother who was fifter to the illuftrious patriot John Hampden , whom the ...
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He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which embellifh his new narrative , into his notes on Mr. Fenton's abridgement , in which there is a vein of candor that does the writer more honour than the ...
He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which embellifh his new narrative , into his notes on Mr. Fenton's abridgement , in which there is a vein of candor that does the writer more honour than the ...
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Every page of the new narrative is full of mean flings and malevolent furmifes on Milton's most indifferent actions , which it would be endless to remark with a proper reproof of each . We shall therefore only select a few of the most ...
Every page of the new narrative is full of mean flings and malevolent furmifes on Milton's most indifferent actions , which it would be endless to remark with a proper reproof of each . We shall therefore only select a few of the most ...
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Does the Doctor mean to fay , that thefe advocates for rebellion infulted the venerable and great Creator of all things , or that there was nothing venerable and great but King Charles I. and his appurtenances ? " tenances ?
Does the Doctor mean to fay , that thefe advocates for rebellion infulted the venerable and great Creator of all things , or that there was nothing venerable and great but King Charles I. and his appurtenances ? " tenances ?
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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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