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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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perly have contented myself with the " addition of a few notes to Mr. Fen" ton's elegant Abridgement ; but that a " new narrative was thought neceffary to " the uniformity of this edition * . " The uniformity of editions is commonly the ...
perly have contented myself with the " addition of a few notes to Mr. Fen" ton's elegant Abridgement ; but that a " new narrative was thought neceffary to " the uniformity of this edition * . " The uniformity of editions is commonly the ...
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Biographer of the impropriety of a new narrative would , we are perfuaded , have made the undertakers of the edition contented with the Doctor's plan . He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which ...
Biographer of the impropriety of a new narrative would , we are perfuaded , have made the undertakers of the edition contented with the Doctor's plan . He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which ...
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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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The fame Mr. Philips fays , that within the first two years that Milton inhabited the houfe which the new narrative dignifies with the name of boardingSchool * , he fet out not only the tract above - mentioned , but likewise the several ...
The fame Mr. Philips fays , that within the first two years that Milton inhabited the houfe which the new narrative dignifies with the name of boardingSchool * , he fet out not only the tract above - mentioned , but likewise the several ...
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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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