The Life of John Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley ... |
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cerity in saying , that I wish to acquit Johnson of malevolence in every article where my reason will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful necessity of displaying continually , in the following work , the various examples ...
cerity in saying , that I wish to acquit Johnson of malevolence in every article where my reason will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful necessity of displaying continually , in the following work , the various examples ...
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... not those very high poetical talents , for which the world , though sufficiently inclined to discover and magnify his defects , had allowed him credit . You consider 4 > consider him as the poet of reason , and DEDICATION . XV.
... not those very high poetical talents , for which the world , though sufficiently inclined to discover and magnify his defects , had allowed him credit . You consider 4 > consider him as the poet of reason , and DEDICATION . XV.
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consider him as the poet of reason , and intimate that " he stooped to truth , and moralized his « fong , " from a want of native powers to fupport a long flight in the higher province of fancy . To me , I confess , his Rape of the Lock ...
consider him as the poet of reason , and intimate that " he stooped to truth , and moralized his « fong , " from a want of native powers to fupport a long flight in the higher province of fancy . To me , I confess , his Rape of the Lock ...
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my lot , a vantage arising to a writer from residing in a city amply furnished with bocks ; -- it is you know , to live in a little fequestered village , and I chuse to do so for the reason which attached the good- : iatured Plutarch to ...
my lot , a vantage arising to a writer from residing in a city amply furnished with bocks ; -- it is you know , to live in a little fequestered village , and I chuse to do so for the reason which attached the good- : iatured Plutarch to ...
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... politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits exactly in the balance of truth and reason . What new light then can be thrown upon a life , whose incidents have been so eagerly collected , and so frequently retailed ?
... politics and in poetry , have endeavoured to weigh his merits exactly in the balance of truth and reason . What new light then can be thrown upon a life , whose incidents have been so eagerly collected , and so frequently retailed ?
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