Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong representations of the character of ro capital a writer as John Milton should be corrected , and properly censured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong representations of the character of ro capital a writer as John Milton should be corrected , and properly censured ; 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 whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Difcourses , 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 whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Difcourses , of Locke on Government and ...
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In the year 1747 , one William Lauder sent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradise Lost . * See Preface to Milton , p . 2 .
In the year 1747 , one William Lauder sent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradise Lost . * See Preface to Milton , p . 2 .
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Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expeted , “ that the elegant and nervous writer , ** whose judicious sentiments and inimi“ table stile point out the author of Lau** der's Preface and Postscript , will no 6 longer allow one to plume ...
Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expeted , “ that the elegant and nervous writer , ** whose judicious sentiments and inimi“ table stile point out the author of Lau** der's Preface and Postscript , will no 6 longer allow one to plume ...
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“ and excelled by the most abject en" thusiasts ; and if we consider him as a “ prose - writer , he has neither the learn“ ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his reasoning , no elegance in his style ...
“ and excelled by the most abject en" thusiasts ; and if we consider him as a “ prose - writer , he has neither the learn“ ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his reasoning , no elegance in his style ...
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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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