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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... never will fee ) that civil liberty can never be established upon its proper bafis . Mil- ton's adherence to Cromwell , therefore , was founded on the most liberal views ; and while there was a profpect of realiz- ing the idea , was ...
... never read , or does not underftand the writings he fo peremptorily cenfures ; yet the vehicle is pleafing , and the reputation he has gained by his labours of more general utility H 2 utility precludes all examination , and he expects ...
... never 66 fpared any afperity of reproach , or bru- 66 tality of infolence . " Milton wrote in a public contest for public liberty : and he generally in that conteft was upon the defenfive . The af perity of his reproaches feldom ...
... never came there , nor can poffibly know what was done , or what was omitted in it . If " his ftudies and " meditations were an habitual prayer , " what occafion had he for a stated hour , which , being a circumftance in the visible ...
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... never confider that the following character is at least equally true of his calumniator ! " It is to be feared that ' s loyalty was founded on an idolatrous venera- * tion of greatnefs , and an abject fond- « nefs for dependence ; in ...
... never confider that the following character is at least equally true of his calumniator ! " It is to be feared that ' s loyalty was founded on an idolatrous venera- * tion of greatnefs , and an abject fond- « nefs for dependence ; in ...
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