Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and AreopagiticaVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 - 381 pages |
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... writer as John Milton fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Pre- faces , we ...
... writer as John Milton fhould be cor- rected , and properly cenfured ; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Pre- faces , we ...
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... writers than the late ever - to - be- honoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful ' and accurate editions of Sydney's Dif- courfes , of Locke on Government and Toleration , and of Toland's Life of Mil- ton , we have spoken largely in ...
... writers than the late ever - to - be- honoured Mr. Hollis , of whose beautiful ' and accurate editions of Sydney's Dif- courfes , of Locke on Government and Toleration , and of Toland's Life of Mil- ton , we have spoken largely in ...
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... fome hints of Milton's plagiarifm , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * Sce Preface to Milton , p . 2 . Who Who William Lauder was , what was his character , [ 4 ]
... fome hints of Milton's plagiarifm , in pillaging certain modern writers for the materials of his poem , intituled , Paradife Loft . * Sce Preface to Milton , p . 2 . Who Who William Lauder was , what was his character , [ 4 ]
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... writer , whofe judicious fentiments and inimi- " table ftile point out the author of Lau- der's Preface and Poftfcript , will no ἐσ longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears fo little to have deferved his ...
... writer , whofe judicious fentiments and inimi- " table ftile point out the author of Lau- der's Preface and Poftfcript , will no ἐσ longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears fo little to have deferved his ...
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... writer , he has neither the learn- 6.6 6.6 66 ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his reafoning , no elegance in his ftyle , and . no tafte in his compofition . " Peremptory , but not decifive ! To ...
... writer , he has neither the learn- 6.6 6.6 66 ing of a scholar , nor the manners of a gentleman . There is no force in his reafoning , no elegance in his ftyle , and . no tafte in his compofition . " Peremptory , but not decifive ! To ...
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