Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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arifes from imagination getting the " better of judgment ; the latter from " habit getting the better of imagination . Shakespeare's faults were thofe of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little . pedant .
arifes from imagination getting the " better of judgment ; the latter from " habit getting the better of imagination . Shakespeare's faults were thofe of a great poet ; thofe of Milton of a little . pedant .
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But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we fhould requeft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ...
But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we fhould requeft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ...
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judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half so poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half so poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
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... may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every fceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there " can be no religion . " " C Is it not better that power fhould be ' Is [ 69 ] "If nothing may be published But ...
... may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every fceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there " can be no religion . " " C Is it not better that power fhould be ' Is [ 69 ] "If nothing may be published But ...
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C Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
C Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
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