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THE

LIFE OF MILTON,

IN THREE PARTS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

CONJECTURES ON THE ORIGIN OF PARADISE LOST:

WITH AN APPENDIX

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

Όλβιος, ὅς μέγα ἔργον ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνύσσας,

Ναίει ἀπήματος καί ἀγήραος ήματα πάντα.

HESIOD. THEOGONIA, V. 953.

Magnarum virium eft tractare facra tam fplendide, fimplicia tam erudite, inculta
tam polite, retrufa tam dilucide, a fenfu communi abhorrentia tam populariter,
periculofa tam libere, fevera tam plaufibiliter. Et tamen hunc virum, quem ne
fummi quidem queant affequi, non verentur calumniari et mediocres.

ERASMUS.

2LONDON:

Printed for T. CADELL, Junior, and W. DAVIES, (Succeffors to Mr. CADELL)

in the Strand.

M. DCC. XCVI.

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THE

LIFE OF MILTON,

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

THE SECOND EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

Effigiem conor efficere, quæ hoc diuturnior erit, quo verior, melior, abfolutior fuerit.

PLIN. EPIST. Lib. 3. Ep. 10.

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DEDICATION

TO THE

REV. JOSEPH WARTON, D. D. &c.

MY PLEASANT AND RESPECTABLE FRIEND!

IN

prefixing your name to this volume, I feel and con

fefs the double influence of an affectionate and of an ambitious defire to honour you and myself. Our loft and lamented Friend GIBBON has told us, I think very truly, in dedicating a juvenile work to his Father, that there are but two kinds of Dedications, which can do honour either to the Patron or the Author-the first arifing from literary esteem, the second from personal affection. If either of these two characteristics may be fufficient to give propriety to a Dedication, I have little to apprehend for the present, which has certainly the advantage of uniting the

two.

The kind and friendly manner in which you commended the first edition of this Life might alone have induced me to inscribe a more ample copy of it to that li

terary

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