REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.1780 - 381 páginas |
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... poet ; thofe of Milton of a little pedant . When Shakespeare is execra " ble he is fo exquifitely fo , that he is " inimitable in his blemifres as in his " beauties . The puns of Milton betray , " a narrowness of education , and a dege ...
... poet ; thofe of Milton of a little pedant . When Shakespeare is execra " ble he is fo exquifitely fo , that he is " inimitable in his blemifres as in his " beauties . The puns of Milton betray , " a narrowness of education , and a dege ...
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... of reading or fpelling ... 1 " We are therefore , " continues the critic , " to confider him in one fixed 66 % point of light , that of a great poet ,. C " with " with a laudable envy of rivalling , 46 eclipfing [ 17 ]
... of reading or fpelling ... 1 " We are therefore , " continues the critic , " to confider him in one fixed 66 % point of light , that of a great poet ,. C " with " with a laudable envy of rivalling , 46 eclipfing [ 17 ]
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... the Critical Reviewers * . that the Doctor's remarks on fome of " our beft poets , particularly Milton and Waller , whofe political opinions by no For May , 1779 . C 2 means " means coincided with his own , may be thought [ 19 ]
... the Critical Reviewers * . that the Doctor's remarks on fome of " our beft poets , particularly Milton and Waller , whofe political opinions by no For May , 1779 . C 2 means " means coincided with his own , may be thought [ 19 ]
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... poets they have always at their " beck , why may they not be fufpected " as the forgers of it ? " So reafoned Mr. Wilkes's friends in the year 1763. Dr. Johnfon knows what the minifterial writers replied ; and let that fuffice for an ...
... poets they have always at their " beck , why may they not be fufpected " as the forgers of it ? " So reafoned Mr. Wilkes's friends in the year 1763. Dr. Johnfon knows what the minifterial writers replied ; and let that fuffice for an ...
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... . They will obferve that they are tainted throughout with the effects of an inve- terate hatred to Milton's politics , with which , as the Biographer of a Poet the author author of Paradise Loft , the Critic had very little [ 127 ]
... . They will obferve that they are tainted throughout with the effects of an inve- terate hatred to Milton's politics , with which , as the Biographer of a Poet the author author of Paradise Loft , the Critic had very little [ 127 ]
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Página 203 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 311 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 315 - ... and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument...
Página 270 - ... books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that hapless race of men whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Página 151 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 232 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Página 296 - Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.
Página 259 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Página 307 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of...