Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and AreopagiticaVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 - 381 pages |
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... writer as John Milton fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnson's Pre- faces , we ...
... writer as John Milton fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnson's Pre- faces , we ...
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... writers than the late ever - to - be- honoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Dif- courfes , of Locke on Government and Toleration , and of Toland's Life of Mil- ton , we have spoken largely in another ...
... writers than the late ever - to - be- honoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Dif- courfes , of Locke on Government and Toleration , and of Toland's Life of Mil- ton , we have spoken largely in another ...
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... fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * See Preface to Milton , p . 2 . Who • Who William Lauder was , what was his character [ 4 ]
... fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * See Preface to Milton , p . 2 . Who • Who William Lauder was , what was his character [ 4 ]
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... writer , “ whose judicious fentiments and inimi- " table stile point out the author of Lau- der's Preface and Peftfcript , will no ❝longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears fo little to " have deferved his ...
... writer , “ whose judicious fentiments and inimi- " table stile point out the author of Lau- der's Preface and Peftfcript , will no ❝longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears fo little to " have deferved his ...
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... writer , he has neither the learn- 66 ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his " reasoning , no elegance in his ftyle , and no tafte in his compofition . " 66 Peremptory , but not decifive ! To make ...
... writer , he has neither the learn- 66 ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his " reasoning , no elegance in his ftyle , and no tafte in his compofition . " 66 Peremptory , but not decifive ! To make ...
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