Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and AreopagiticaVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 - 381 pages |
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... fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Pre- faces , we hope the public will ...
... fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Pre- faces , we hope the public will ...
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... fhould be abused for his principles of Liberty by a lefs eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declam- ers against the fentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceafed to be regarded , till the maxims ...
... fhould be abused for his principles of Liberty by a lefs eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declam- ers against the fentiments and diction of Milton's profe - works , had ceafed to be regarded , till the maxims ...
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... fhould not ripen into appetite , particu- larly for Milton's works , whofe reputa- tion he had formerly taken fo much ele- gant pains to depreciate . The fource of his difaffection to Milton's principles can be no fecret to thofe who ...
... fhould not ripen into appetite , particu- larly for Milton's works , whofe reputa- tion he had formerly taken fo much ele- gant pains to depreciate . The fource of his difaffection to Milton's principles can be no fecret to thofe who ...
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... fhould re- queft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abftract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
... fhould re- queft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation habit , in the abftract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
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... fhould have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the ftudy of the abftrufer fciences , but even in the elemental acquifitions of reading . or fpelling .. " We are therefore ...
... fhould have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the ftudy of the abftrufer fciences , but even in the elemental acquifitions of reading . or fpelling .. " We are therefore ...
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