Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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IT Tis neceffary to inform the reader , that the following Remarks are a fmall part of a work lately given to the public , wherein occafion is incidentally taken to exhibit fome inftances of the manner in which Milton's character has ...
IT Tis neceffary to inform the reader , that the following Remarks are a fmall part of a work lately given to the public , wherein occafion is incidentally taken to exhibit fome inftances of the manner in which Milton's character has ...
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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 corrected , 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 corrected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
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REMARKS ΟΝ Bajte Sc : JOHNSON's Life of MILTON . WE were in hope that we had done . with Milton's Biographers ; and had little forefight that so accomplished an artificer B of of language would have condefcended to bring up the rear จ ...
REMARKS ΟΝ Bajte Sc : JOHNSON's Life of MILTON . WE were in hope that we had done . with Milton's Biographers ; and had little forefight that so accomplished an artificer B of of language would have condefcended to bring up the rear จ ...
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11 But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a lefs eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the fentiments and ...
11 But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a lefs eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the fentiments and ...
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Dr. Johnfon's peace of mind required that this recovering tafte of the public fhould not ripen into appetite , particularly for Milton's works , whose reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate .
Dr. Johnfon's peace of mind required that this recovering tafte of the public fhould not ripen into appetite , particularly for Milton's works , whose reputation he had formerly taken fo much elegant pains to depreciate .
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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 | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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