Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton: To which are Added Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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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 condescended to bring up the rear Gabril. Mamijimt. Cirolimicnww.hel. ...
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 condescended to bring up the rear Gabril. Mamijimt. Cirolimicnww.hel. ...
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of language would have condescended to bring up the rear of his hiftorians . But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own .
of language would have condescended to bring up the rear of his hiftorians . But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own .
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When the Doctor found , on some late occafions , that his crude abuse and malicious criticisms would not bring down Milton to the degree of contempt with the public which he had assigned him in the scale of prose - writers .; he fell ...
When the Doctor found , on some late occafions , that his crude abuse and malicious criticisms would not bring down Milton to the degree of contempt with the public which he had assigned him in the scale of prose - writers .; he fell ...
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... utterly incredible that any one with the coolest feelings of humanity ( of which we by no means suppose Dr. Johnson to be destitute ) could bring himself to sport with the calamity of the unhappy criminal , without hope or prospect ...
... utterly incredible that any one with the coolest feelings of humanity ( of which we by no means suppose Dr. Johnson to be destitute ) could bring himself to sport with the calamity of the unhappy criminal , without hope or prospect ...
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... praxis thereof in some chosen fort book leffon'd throughly to them , they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things , and Arts in due order , which would bring the whole language quickly into their power .
... praxis thereof in some chosen fort book leffon'd throughly to them , they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things , and Arts in due order , which would bring the whole language quickly into their power .
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton: To which are Added Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Published | 1780 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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