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judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half so poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shakefpeare's powers not half so poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may think , " fays the ...
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But Milton only , for the prefent , is our client , and only Milton the profewriter , who , in that character , must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public ...
But Milton only , for the prefent , is our client , and only Milton the profewriter , who , in that character , must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public ...
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... bookfeller's care , and the neceffity of fuch uniformity generally arifes from the taste of the public ; of which , among the number of names exhibited in the title - pages of these volumes , there must be many competent judges .
... bookfeller's care , and the neceffity of fuch uniformity generally arifes from the taste of the public ; of which , among the number of names exhibited in the title - pages of these volumes , there must be many competent judges .
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Wonderful must be that genius which has a taste for being flogged or banished ! " It seems plain , " fays the new narrative , " from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred ruftication , a tem< 6 porary difmiffion into the ...
Wonderful must be that genius which has a taste for being flogged or banished ! " It seems plain , " fays the new narrative , " from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred ruftication , a tem< 6 porary difmiffion into the ...
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If Ignoramus was well acted at Trinity College , thefe ludicrous appearances must be exhibited to the spectators , who were perfons exactly answering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by ...
If Ignoramus was well acted at Trinity College , thefe ludicrous appearances must be exhibited to the spectators , who were perfons exactly answering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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