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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Francis Blackburne. judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- fpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may ...
Francis Blackburne. judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- fpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may ...
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... must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Eng- lifhmen , which , in their origin , are nei- ther more ...
... must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Eng- lifhmen , which , in their origin , are nei- ther more ...
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... must be many competent judges . It would be a pity however that a confor- mity to this taste should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented ! himself ; the leaft intimation from ...
... must be many competent judges . It would be a pity however that a confor- mity to this taste should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented ! himself ; the leaft intimation from ...
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... must be that genius which has a tafte for being flogged or banished ! " It seems plain , " fays the new narra- tive , " from his own verses to Diodati , that he had incurred ruftication , a tem- " porary difmiffion into the country ...
... must be that genius which has a tafte for being flogged or banished ! " It seems plain , " fays the new narra- tive , " from his own verses to Diodati , that he had incurred ruftication , a tem- " porary difmiffion into the country ...
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... must be ex- hibited to the spectators , who were per- fons exactly answering the defcription here given of them ; and if the charac- ters were perfonated by clergymen , or candidates for orders , there is propriety as well as truth in ...
... must be ex- hibited to the spectators , who were per- fons exactly answering the defcription here given of them ; and if the charac- ters were perfonated by clergymen , or candidates for orders , there is propriety as well as truth in ...
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