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" He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected, that his predominant desire was to destroy, rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty, as repugnance... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 123
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State, and prelates 5 in the Church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so...
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Cowley (1618) to Burns (1759)

Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 pages
...petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State and prelates in the Church, for he hated all whom he was required to obey. it has been observed that they who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it Puritan...
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Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Volume 51

1909 - 424 pages
...pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarclis in the state and prelates in the church, for lie hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and he felt not so much...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state and prelates in the church, for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant I desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state and prelates in the church, for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state and prelates in the church, for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...petulance impatient of control , .and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state and prelates in the church, for he hated all whom he was requiredjto obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish,...
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John Page's Siege of Rouen: kritische Textausgabe nebst ausführlicher ...

John Page - 1927 - 488 pages
...impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State and prelales in the Church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he feit not so...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. 1 The Puritan tradition had undergone far-reaching changes and splits by the mid-18th century: for...
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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the ...

J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pages
...petulance impatient of controul, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey.' Milton was guilty of the faults of his age: It is scarcely possible, in the regularity and composure...
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