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... fashion in these times , affords many useful leffons to those who may have abilities and courage enough to adopt fome of those improvements , of which the modes of learned education in prefent practice are confeffedly fufceptible .
... fashion in these times , affords many useful leffons to those who may have abilities and courage enough to adopt fome of those improvements , of which the modes of learned education in prefent practice are confeffedly fufceptible .
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The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the sentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceased to be regarded , till the maxims of fome of those who pay Dr. Johnfon's quarterages had occafioned an inquiry into the ...
The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the sentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceased to be regarded , till the maxims of fome of those who pay Dr. Johnfon's quarterages had occafioned an inquiry into the ...
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... particularly for Milton's works , whofe reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate . The fource of his difaffection to Milton's principles can B. 2 be C be no fecret to those who have been converfant in [ 3 ]
... particularly for Milton's works , whofe reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate . The fource of his difaffection to Milton's principles can B. 2 be C be no fecret to those who have been converfant in [ 3 ]
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be no fecret to those who have been converfant in the controverfies of the times . Dr. Johnson's early and well - known attachments will fufficiently account for it ; and pofterity will be at no lofs to determine whether our ...
be no fecret to those who have been converfant in the controverfies of the times . Dr. Johnson's early and well - known attachments will fufficiently account for it ; and pofterity will be at no lofs to determine whether our ...
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... have deferved his affiftance ; an affif2 " tance which , I am perfuaded , would << never have been communicated , had " there been the leaft fufpicion of those " facts which I have been the inftrument " of conveying to the world * .
... have deferved his affiftance ; an affif2 " tance which , I am perfuaded , would << never have been communicated , had " there been the leaft fufpicion of those " facts which I have been the inftrument " of conveying to the world * .
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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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