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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... appears very extra- vagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of dis- tinction to honour a very powerful historian ) even Gibbon himself , whom we both admired and loved ...
... appears very extra- vagant , to give it the gentleft appellation . A literary Paladine ( if I may borrow from romance a title of dis- tinction to honour a very powerful historian ) even Gibbon himself , whom we both admired and loved ...
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... appears a sufficient proof that he possessed , in a fu- perlative degree , the faculty in which you would reduce him to a fecondary rank ; he chofe , indeed , in many of his productions , to be the poet of reafon rather than of fancy ...
... appears a sufficient proof that he possessed , in a fu- perlative degree , the faculty in which you would reduce him to a fecondary rank ; he chofe , indeed , in many of his productions , to be the poet of reafon rather than of fancy ...
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... appear in a new and agreeable light , from the following col- lection and arrangement of the many little sketches , which his own hand has occafionally given us , of his paffions and purfuits . Several of these , indeed , have been ...
... appear in a new and agreeable light , from the following col- lection and arrangement of the many little sketches , which his own hand has occafionally given us , of his paffions and purfuits . Several of these , indeed , have been ...
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... appears to have been greatly mistaken . I am under no fear that the frequency or length of fuch citations may be exposed to cenfure , having the pleafure and advantage of pre- fenting them to the English reader in the elegant and ...
... appears to have been greatly mistaken . I am under no fear that the frequency or length of fuch citations may be exposed to cenfure , having the pleafure and advantage of pre- fenting them to the English reader in the elegant and ...
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... appears to be a fatire on cha- racters pretending to wifdom or policy , and is not void of learning and wit , fuch as we often find affectedly and awkwardly blended in the effay - writers of that age . " By the favour of Mr. Ifaac Reed ...
... appears to be a fatire on cha- racters pretending to wifdom or policy , and is not void of learning and wit , fuch as we often find affectedly and awkwardly blended in the effay - writers of that age . " By the favour of Mr. Ifaac Reed ...
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