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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... Milton's principles of civil and religious government , he found a paternal indul- gence of his fplenetic animofity . Milton was a Whig , and therefore muft be a Plagiary ; accordingly when . the time came that Lauder's ftrictures in ...
... Milton's principles of civil and religious government , he found a paternal indul- gence of his fplenetic animofity . Milton was a Whig , and therefore muft be a Plagiary ; accordingly when . the time came that Lauder's ftrictures in ...
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... Milton , being thus difappoint- ed by the laudable diligence of Dr.Doug- las , and the unmanageable petulance of Lauder , common prudence fuggefted to our biographer the expedience of fup- preffing his impatience for another op ...
... Milton , being thus difappoint- ed by the laudable diligence of Dr.Doug- las , and the unmanageable petulance of Lauder , common prudence fuggefted to our biographer the expedience of fup- preffing his impatience for another op ...
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... Milton , we leave to the critics by profeffion . This is what he fays of Milton : " I am fenfible that in the calculations " I have here exhibited I have , in many inftances , ftrong prejudices against me . The friends of Milton will ...
... Milton , we leave to the critics by profeffion . This is what he fays of Milton : " I am fenfible that in the calculations " I have here exhibited I have , in many inftances , ftrong prejudices against me . The friends of Milton will ...
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... Milton betray , " a narrowness of education , and a dege . neracy of habit . " 156 .66 Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the fcale of poetical merit , which perhaps , at the bottom may amount to no more than that , Milton ...
... Milton betray , " a narrowness of education , and a dege . neracy of habit . " 156 .66 Thus far Dr. Johnson's exhibition of Milton in the fcale of poetical merit , which perhaps , at the bottom may amount to no more than that , Milton ...
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... Milton for his pedantry is certainly betraying a strange uncon- sciousness of his own talents , unless he depends upon his reader's fagacity in difcriminating a great pedant from a little one . He is obliged , however , to com- plete ...
... Milton for his pedantry is certainly betraying a strange uncon- sciousness of his own talents , unless he depends upon his reader's fagacity in difcriminating a great pedant from a little one . He is obliged , however , to com- plete ...
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