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About the time that specimen was closed Dr. Johnson's New Narrative was thrown in the way of the editors , and could not be overlooked without leaving some of the more candid and capable judges of Milton's prose - writings to suffer by ...
About the time that specimen was closed Dr. Johnson's New Narrative was thrown in the way of the editors , and could not be overlooked without leaving some of the more candid and capable judges of Milton's prose - writings to suffer by ...
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In January 1958 he released himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the public his poeTICAL SCALE , the particulars of which , fave what relates to Milton ; we leave to the s ...
In January 1958 he released himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the public his poeTICAL SCALE , the particulars of which , fave what relates to Milton ; we leave to the s ...
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Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the scale of poetical .merit , which perhaps , at the bottom mạy amount to no more than that , Milton could not make a saddle , or dance upon the 1 the rope * But this too we leave to ...
Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the scale of poetical .merit , which perhaps , at the bottom mạy amount to no more than that , Milton could not make a saddle , or dance upon the 1 the rope * But this too we leave to ...
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the rope * But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we should request 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 ...
the rope * But this too we leave to critics on poetry , of whom we should request 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 ...
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The students in Milton's academy ( being the sons of men of like fpirit and principles with their master ) would not ;. upon leaving his boarding - school , vapour away their patriotism in writing books ; but proceed to scenes of action ...
The students in Milton's academy ( being the sons of men of like fpirit and principles with their master ) would not ;. upon leaving his boarding - school , vapour away their patriotism in writing books ; but proceed to scenes of action ...
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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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