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... 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 Prefaces , we hope the public will approve of our republishing these strictures ...
... 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 Prefaces , we hope the public will approve of our republishing these strictures ...
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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 . The minute snarlers , or spumose declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
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 . The minute snarlers , or spumose declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
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... that Lauder's Atrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had swelled into the size of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a poftscript , from the illuftrious hand of Dr. Samuel Johnson .
... that Lauder's Atrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had swelled into the size of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a poftscript , from the illuftrious hand of Dr. Samuel Johnson .
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There is at least a High DEGREE OF PREPOLLENT PROBABILITY , that the Letter in that Magazine for the inonth of August , page 363 , 364 , signed wilLIAM LAUDER , came from the amicable hand of Mr. Samuel Johnson .
There is at least a High DEGREE OF PREPOLLENT PROBABILITY , that the Letter in that Magazine for the inonth of August , page 363 , 364 , signed wilLIAM LAUDER , came from the amicable hand of Mr. Samuel Johnson .
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On the other hand , few men are so totally abandoned and depraved as to have no remnants of grace and goodness , no intervals of sobriety , no touches of regret for departed innocence , no sense of those generous paffions which animate ...
On the other hand , few men are so totally abandoned and depraved as to have no remnants of grace and goodness , no intervals of sobriety , no touches of regret for departed innocence , no sense of those generous paffions which animate ...
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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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