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 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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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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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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... for his prefent interference ; and the world who know the artificer will make it no wonder that the encomiaft and apologist of the profligate Richard Savage fhould employ his pen to fatyrize and calumniate the virtuous John Milton .
... for his prefent interference ; and the world who know the artificer will make it no wonder that the encomiaft and apologist of the profligate Richard Savage fhould employ his pen to fatyrize and calumniate the virtuous John Milton .
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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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