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The first was grown scarce , being omitted in some editions , both of the author's prose and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preserved as prescribing a course of discipline , which , though out of fashion in these times ...
The first was grown scarce , being omitted in some editions , both of the author's prose and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preserved as prescribing a course of discipline , which , though out of fashion in these times ...
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... in facing a formidable enemy , and Dr. Johnson's seesaw meditations , the shifty wiles of a inan between two fires , who neither dares fight nor run away . These two tracts are published from the first editions . Gabril . Mamijimt .
... in facing a formidable enemy , and Dr. Johnson's seesaw meditations , the shifty wiles of a inan between two fires , who neither dares fight nor run away . These two tracts are published from the first editions . Gabril . Mamijimt .
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But Dr. Johnson's particular malevolence to Milton may not be so well known , or possibly forgot ; we shall therefore give a short account of its progress , from its first appearance to its consummation in this Life of Milton .
But Dr. Johnson's particular malevolence to Milton may not be so well known , or possibly forgot ; we shall therefore give a short account of its progress , from its first appearance to its consummation in this Life of Milton .
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The same Mr. Philips says , that within the first two years that Milton inhabited the house which the new narrative dignifies with the name of boardingschool * , he set out not only the tract above - mentioned , but likewise the several ...
The same Mr. Philips says , that within the first two years that Milton inhabited the house which the new narrative dignifies with the name of boardingschool * , he set out not only the tract above - mentioned , but likewise the several ...
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... he deserted them , not out of humour , as this rancorous Biographer would insinuate * ; but because they fainted in the progress of that work to the completion of which their first avowed principles would have led them .
... he deserted them , not out of humour , as this rancorous Biographer would insinuate * ; but because they fainted in the progress of that work to the completion of which their first avowed principles would have led them .
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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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