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The first was grown scarce , being omitted in some editions , both of the author's prose and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preserved as prescribing a course of discipline , which , though out of fashion in these times ...
The first was grown scarce , being omitted in some editions , both of the author's prose and poetical works ; but highly worthy to be preserved as prescribing a course of discipline , which , though out of fashion in these times ...
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... those generous paffions which animate the wise and good to praise - worthy actions , or no natural or acquired abilities to abate the resentment of the reputable public , and to atone C4 the [ 23 ] ceeded (in particular exigences.
... those generous paffions which animate the wise and good to praise - worthy actions , or no natural or acquired abilities to abate the resentment of the reputable public , and to atone C4 the [ 23 ] ceeded (in particular exigences.
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... corpse 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 nobleinan then at Rone , from whom we had this account .
... corpse 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 nobleinan then at Rone , 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 instances might be given from this new narrative , where the quaintness of the antithesis , as here , borders upon the the burlesque ; and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's style , of what we remember a worthy ...
Many more instances might be given from this new narrative , where the quaintness of the antithesis , as here , borders upon the the burlesque ; and we are too often put in mind , by Dr. Johnson's style , of what we remember a worthy ...
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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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