Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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But Milton only , for the prefent , is our client , and only Milton the profewriter , who , in that character , must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public ...
But Milton only , for the prefent , is our client , and only Milton the profewriter , who , in that character , must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public ...
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... bookseller's care , and the neceffity of such uniformity generally arises from the tafte of the public ; of which , among the number of names exhibited in the title - pages of thefe volumes , there must be many competent judges .
... bookseller's care , and the neceffity of such uniformity generally arises from the tafte of the public ; of which , among the number of names exhibited in the title - pages of thefe volumes , there must be many competent judges .
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Wonderful must be that genius which has a tafte for being flogged or banished ! " It feems plain , " fays the new narrătive , from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred rufication , a tem" porary difimiffion into the ...
Wonderful must be that genius which has a tafte for being flogged or banished ! " It feems plain , " fays the new narrătive , from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred rufication , a tem" porary difimiffion into the ...
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If Ignoramus was well acted at Trinity College , thefe ludicrous appearances must be exhibited to the spectators , who were perfons exactly anfwering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by ...
If Ignoramus was well acted at Trinity College , thefe ludicrous appearances must be exhibited to the spectators , who were perfons exactly anfwering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by ...
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... as he himself must know by experience the fervice that political pamphlets do to the faction their authors . adhere to , when feasonably published . The merit of the faction , or of the author , is out of the question .
... as he himself must know by experience the fervice that political pamphlets do to the faction their authors . adhere to , when feasonably published . The merit of the faction , or of the author , is out of the question .
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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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