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Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong reprefentations of the character of fo capital a writer as John Milton should be corrected , and properly censured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
Our countrymen are certainly interested , that wrong reprefentations of the character of fo capital a writer as John Milton should be corrected , and properly censured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are ...
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No man contributed more to restore the esteem and credit of these noble patriotic writer's than the late ever - to - behonoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Dilcourses , of Locke on Government and ...
No man contributed more to restore the esteem and credit of these noble patriotic writer's than the late ever - to - behonoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful and accurate editions of Sydney's Dilcourses , of Locke on Government and ...
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In the year 1747 , one William Lauder fent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradise Loji . * Sce I'reface to Milton , p .
In the year 1747 , one William Lauder fent to the Gentleman's Magazine fome hints of Milton's plagiarism , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradise Loji . * Sce I'reface to Milton , p .
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On occafion of these head and tail . pieces the ingenious Dr. Douglas , the detector of Lauder's forgeries , writes thus : C ' Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expested , « that the elegant and nervous writer , ๕ « whose judicious ...
On occafion of these head and tail . pieces the ingenious Dr. Douglas , the detector of Lauder's forgeries , writes thus : C ' Tis to be hoped , nay , ' tis expested , « that the elegant and nervous writer , ๕ « whose judicious ...
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and excelled by the most abjeet en“ thusiasts ; and if we consider him as a “ prose - writer , he has neither the learning of a scholar , nor the manners of a “ gentleman . " . There is no force in his “ reasoning , no elegance in his ...
and excelled by the most abjeet en“ thusiasts ; and if we consider him as a “ prose - writer , he has neither the learning of a scholar , nor the manners of a “ gentleman . " . There is no force in his “ reasoning , no elegance in his ...
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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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