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Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong reprefentations of the character of fo capital a writer as John Milton fhould be cor rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong reprefentations of the character of fo capital a writer as John Milton fhould be cor rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
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No man contributed more to restore the esteem and credit of these noble pa❤ triotic writers than the late ever - to - behonoured Mr. Hollis , of whofe beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Difcourfes , of Locke on Government and ...
No man contributed more to restore the esteem and credit of these noble pa❤ triotic writers than the late ever - to - behonoured Mr. Hollis , of whofe beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Difcourfes , of Locke on Government and ...
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眼 In the year 1747 , one William Lauder fent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarifm , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * See Preface to Milton , p .
眼 In the year 1747 , one William Lauder fent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarifm , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * See Preface to Milton , p .
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On occafion of these head and tailpieces the ingenious Dr. Douglas , the detector of Lauder's forgeries , writes thus : " " Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expected , " that the elegant and nervous writer , whofe judicious fentiments and ...
On occafion of these head and tailpieces the ingenious Dr. Douglas , the detector of Lauder's forgeries , writes thus : " " Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expected , " that the elegant and nervous writer , whofe judicious fentiments and ...
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and excelled by the most abject en" thufiafts ; and if we confider him as a profe - writer , he has neither the learn" ing of a fcholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his " reasoning , no elegance in his ftyle ...
and excelled by the most abject en" thufiafts ; and if we confider him as a profe - writer , he has neither the learn" ing of a fcholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his " reasoning , no elegance in his ftyle ...
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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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