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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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“ .perly have contented myself with the " addition of a few notes to Mr. Fen“ ton's elegant Abridgement ; but that a “ new narrative was thought necessary to 56 the uniformity of this edition * . ” The uniformity of editions is commonly ...
“ .perly have contented myself with the " addition of a few notes to Mr. Fen“ ton's elegant Abridgement ; but that a “ new narrative was thought necessary to 56 the uniformity of this edition * . ” The uniformity of editions is commonly ...
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Biographer of the impropriety of a netu narrative would , we are perfuaded , have made the undertakers of the edition contented with the Doctor's plan . He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which ...
Biographer of the impropriety of a netu narrative would , we are perfuaded , have made the undertakers of the edition contented with the Doctor's plan . He might not indeed have found the means to introduce certain particulars , which ...
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“ It seems plain , ” says the new narrative , " from his own verses to Diodati , " that he had incurred rustication , a temporary disiniffion into the country , with perhaps the loss of a term . " Milton was admitted of Christ's Cole ...
“ It seems plain , ” says the new narrative , " from his own verses to Diodati , " that he had incurred rustication , a temporary disiniffion into the country , with perhaps the loss of a term . " Milton was admitted of Christ's Cole ...
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Every page of the new narrative is full of mean Alings and malevolent furinises on Milton's most indifferent actions , which it would be endless to remark with a proper reproof of each . We shall therefore only select a few of the most ...
Every page of the new narrative is full of mean Alings and malevolent furinises on Milton's most indifferent actions , which it would be endless to remark with a proper reproof of each . We shall therefore only select a few of the most ...
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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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