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... the elemental acquisitions of reading or spelling . “ We are therefore , " continues the critic , “ to consider him in one fixed point of light , that of a great poet , с " with “ with a laudable envy of rivalling , , eclipsing [ 17 ]
... the elemental acquisitions of reading or spelling . “ We are therefore , " continues the critic , “ to consider him in one fixed point of light , that of a great poet , с " with “ with a laudable envy of rivalling , , eclipsing [ 17 ]
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Immediately however the critic withdraws Milton from this fixed point of light , and places his fublimity of sentiment and description in contrast with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , “ Shakespeare could have wrote like ...
Immediately however the critic withdraws Milton from this fixed point of light , and places his fublimity of sentiment and description in contrast with Shakespeare's amiable variety ; and concludes , “ Shakespeare could have wrote like ...
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... yet might be worth inany confiderations , if brevity had not bean my scope , many other circumstances also I could have mention'd , but this to such as bave the worth in them to make triall , for light and direcrion may be anough .
... yet might be worth inany confiderations , if brevity had not bean my scope , many other circumstances also I could have mention'd , but this to such as bave the worth in them to make triall , for light and direcrion may be anough .
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... to a recommend this admirable defence of the best of human rights , to any one who has ever heard of the DIVINE MILTON : and it is impossible to produce better arguments , or to set them in a more convincing , awakening light .
... to a recommend this admirable defence of the best of human rights , to any one who has ever heard of the DIVINE MILTON : and it is impossible to produce better arguments , or to set them in a more convincing , awakening light .
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For what else spreads light , or diffuses knowledge through the world ? But it seems , as a sense of the value of health is sometimes lost in the midft of its full enjoyment ; so men , through a habit of liber-ty , may become insenfible ...
For what else spreads light , or diffuses knowledge through the world ? But it seems , as a sense of the value of health is sometimes lost in the midft of its full enjoyment ; so men , through a habit of liber-ty , may become insenfible ...
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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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