Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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The first was grown scarce , being omitted in fome editions , both of the author's profe and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preferved as prefcribing a course of difcipline , which , though out of fashion " in these times ...
The first was grown scarce , being omitted in fome editions , both of the author's profe and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preferved as prefcribing a course of difcipline , which , though out of fashion " in these times ...
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... for departed innocence , no fenfe of those generous paffions which animate the wife and good to praife - worthy actions , or no natural or acquired abilities to abate C 4 the the refentment of the reputable public , and to atone [ 23 ]
... for departed innocence , no fenfe of those generous paffions which animate the wife and good to praife - worthy actions , or no natural or acquired abilities to abate C 4 the the refentment of the reputable public , and to atone [ 23 ]
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... corpfe of a Danish gentleman , a protestant , who died at Rome about the year 1762 or 63 , and left that office to be performed by a worthy clergyman , chaplain to an English nobleman then at Rome , from whom we had this account .
... corpfe of a Danish gentleman , a protestant , who died at Rome about the year 1762 or 63 , and left that office to be performed by a worthy clergyman , chaplain to an English nobleman then at Rome , from whom we had this account .
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Yet this worthy Bishop fuffers this prayer to be published in a collection of King Charles's works in the year 1662 , without giving the least hint of the forgery , imputed afterwards to Milton and Bradshaw . Let Dr. Johnson then make ...
Yet this worthy Bishop fuffers this prayer to be published in a collection of King Charles's works in the year 1662 , without giving the least hint of the forgery , imputed afterwards to Milton and Bradshaw . Let Dr. Johnson then make ...
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Many more inftances might be given from this new narrative , where the quaintnefs of the antithefis , as here , borders upon the burlesque ; and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's ftyle , of what we remember a worthy Oxford ...
Many more inftances might be given from this new narrative , where the quaintnefs of the antithefis , as here , borders upon the burlesque ; and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's ftyle , of what we remember a worthy Oxford ...
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