anded

THE

LIFE OF MILTON,

IN THREE PARTS,

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

CONJECTURES ON THE ORIGIN

OF

PARADISE LOST:

WITH AN APPENDIX.

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BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.

Ολβιος, ός μέγα έργον εν αθανάτοισιν ανύσσας,
Ναίει απήμανλος και αγήραος ήματα πάντα. .

Hesiod. TheoGONA, V. 953.

Magnarum virium est tractare facra tam fplendide, fimplicia tam erudite,

inculta tam polite, retrufa tam dilucide, a sensu communi abhorrentia
tam populariter, periculofa tam libere, severa tam plausibiliter. Et
tamen hunc virum, quem ne summi quidem queant affequi, non verentur
calumniari et mediocres.

ERASMUS,

DU B L I N:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM PORTER, 69, GRAFTON-STREET.

1797