The Life of Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an AppendixT. Cadell, junior, 1796 - 328 páginas |
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... severity to which I allude , fo little to be expected from the general temper of the cri- tic , and from that affectionate spirit , with which he had vindicated the poetry of Milton from the misrepresenta- tions of cold and callous ...
... severity to which I allude , fo little to be expected from the general temper of the cri- tic , and from that affectionate spirit , with which he had vindicated the poetry of Milton from the misrepresenta- tions of cold and callous ...
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... severity of Mr. Warton , and held it hardly compatible with the duty of a good citizen to re - publish , in the present times , the profe of Milton , as he appre- hended it might be productive of public evil . For my own part , although ...
... severity of Mr. Warton , and held it hardly compatible with the duty of a good citizen to re - publish , in the present times , the profe of Milton , as he appre- hended it might be productive of public evil . For my own part , although ...
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... severity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our fpleen than a ftroke of injuftice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I fhould be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was obliged to display , and I ...
... severity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our fpleen than a ftroke of injuftice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I fhould be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was obliged to display , and I ...
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... severity , to attract “ and delight . ” Yet to fhew how apt a writer of verses is to accufe a profeft critic of feverity , we may both recollect , that when I had occafion to speak of your entertaining and inftruc-- tive Effay on Pope ...
... severity , to attract “ and delight . ” Yet to fhew how apt a writer of verses is to accufe a profeft critic of feverity , we may both recollect , that when I had occafion to speak of your entertaining and inftruc-- tive Effay on Pope ...
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... . In writing upon Milton , and those who , to my apprehenfion , have infulted his name with contumelious severity , I may have been hurried beyond the bias of my b 2 temper , temper , which is , I truft , neither irafcible DEDICATION . xix.
... . In writing upon Milton , and those who , to my apprehenfion , have infulted his name with contumelious severity , I may have been hurried beyond the bias of my b 2 temper , temper , which is , I truft , neither irafcible DEDICATION . xix.
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