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Dr. Johnfon's peace of mind required that this recovering tafte of the public fhould not ripen into appetite , particularly for Milton's works , whofe reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate .
Dr. Johnfon's peace of mind required that this recovering tafte of the public fhould not ripen into appetite , particularly for Milton's works , whofe reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate .
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... but his draw - backs upon it only end in furmifes palpably inconfiftent with that unabated conftancy of mind in Milton , which even the new narrative could not difguife ; an obfer<< obfervation which belongs to more articles of this ...
... but his draw - backs upon it only end in furmifes palpably inconfiftent with that unabated conftancy of mind in Milton , which even the new narrative could not difguife ; an obfer<< obfervation which belongs to more articles of this ...
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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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... and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's style , of what we remember a worthy Oxford tutor faid to his pupils of the ftyle of Seed's Sermons : " Boys will imi" tate it ; and boys will be spoiled by imi" tating it .
... and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's style , of what we remember a worthy Oxford tutor faid to his pupils of the ftyle of Seed's Sermons : " Boys will imi" tate it ; and boys will be spoiled by imi" tating it .
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He can hardly be fuppofed to have fufpected that the powers of his own rhetorie would be too feeble for fo critical an occafion . Prefence of mind he could not want to compose a 4 fpeech fpeech for himfelf . His effufions both in profe ...
He can hardly be fuppofed to have fufpected that the powers of his own rhetorie would be too feeble for fo critical an occafion . Prefence of mind he could not want to compose a 4 fpeech fpeech for himfelf . His effufions both in profe ...
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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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