Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica1780 - 381 pages |
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... press , and moreover may , in half an hour's reading , entertain some part of the public with a contrast between the magnanimity of Milton , in facing a for- midable enemy , and Dr. Johnson's fee- saw meditations , the shifty wiles of a ...
... press , and moreover may , in half an hour's reading , entertain some part of the public with a contrast between the magnanimity of Milton , in facing a for- midable enemy , and Dr. Johnson's fee- saw meditations , the shifty wiles of a ...
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... he might reasonably hope his ma nœuvres , under the hide of Lauder , would be forgotten , or laid asleep by a , succession of that variety of entertainment . which which the press is always providing for the public on [ 13 ]
... he might reasonably hope his ma nœuvres , under the hide of Lauder , would be forgotten , or laid asleep by a , succession of that variety of entertainment . which which the press is always providing for the public on [ 13 ]
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Francis Blackburne. which the press is always providing for the public on all forts of fubjects ...... In January 1758 he released himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the ...
Francis Blackburne. which the press is always providing for the public on all forts of fubjects ...... In January 1758 he released himself from his quarentine , and appeared in the Literary Magazine for that month , holding forth to the ...
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... press , which did not much favour the legal fettlement of the crown , or tend to abate the dif contents of the people . Had the minifter of the day , who then flept with his doors unbolted , caught the thief with the dark - lanthorn in ...
... press , which did not much favour the legal fettlement of the crown , or tend to abate the dif contents of the people . Had the minifter of the day , who then flept with his doors unbolted , caught the thief with the dark - lanthorn in ...
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... press our diflike of Dr. Johnson's style ; but candor itself must allow , that there are periods in it which require to be translated into intelligible English , even where the fentiment is trivial enough for the conception of an honeft ...
... press our diflike of Dr. Johnson's style ; but candor itself must allow , that there are periods in it which require to be translated into intelligible English , even where the fentiment is trivial enough for the conception of an honeft ...
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