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I am 16 ashamed to relate what I fear is true ; " that Milton was the last student in so either university that suffered the pubso * lic indignity of corporal correction * . " This filly tale is taken from Warton's 6.
I am 16 ashamed to relate what I fear is true ; " that Milton was the last student in so either university that suffered the pubso * lic indignity of corporal correction * . " This filly tale is taken from Warton's 6.
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If his timidity.during the Interregnum prevailed with him to conceal the forgery , his fears must be at * Biographia Britannica , Juxon , Rem . [ C. ] an an end at the Restoration . The prayer had been [ 80 )
If his timidity.during the Interregnum prevailed with him to conceal the forgery , his fears must be at * Biographia Britannica , Juxon , Rem . [ C. ] an an end at the Restoration . The prayer had been [ 80 )
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Of all the writers upon political subjects , Milton left the least room for fears and suspicions . He is open and explicit in all his reproofs of lawless power and oppreslon , civil and ecclesiastical . Envy at greatness and superiority ...
Of all the writers upon political subjects , Milton left the least room for fears and suspicions . He is open and explicit in all his reproofs of lawless power and oppreslon , civil and ecclesiastical . Envy at greatness and superiority ...
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Such , one might fear , was the motive , from the early and general intelligence imparted to the public , by whom this admired piece of oratory was fabricated . Was it , lastly , the presumption that a speech composed by Dr. Johnson ...
Such , one might fear , was the motive , from the early and general intelligence imparted to the public , by whom this admired piece of oratory was fabricated . Was it , lastly , the presumption that a speech composed by Dr. Johnson ...
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... to delight in manly , and liberall exercises : which he who hath the art , and proper eloquence to catch them with , what with mild and effectuall perswafions , and what with the intimation of some fear , if need be , but chiefly by ...
... to delight in manly , and liberall exercises : which he who hath the art , and proper eloquence to catch them with , what with mild and effectuall perswafions , and what with the intimation of some fear , if need be , but chiefly by ...
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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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