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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... poets had failed in this petty compofition . You , who perfectly know how much more inclined I am to praise than to cenfure , will give me full credit for my fincerity in saying , that I wish to acquit Johnfon of male- volence in every ...
... poets had failed in this petty compofition . You , who perfectly know how much more inclined I am to praise than to cenfure , will give me full credit for my fincerity in saying , that I wish to acquit Johnfon of male- volence in every ...
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... poets he often excites my tranfient indignation ; but as an eloquent teacher of morality he fills me with more lafting reverence and affection . : His lives of the poets will probably give birth , in this or the next century , to a work ...
... poets he often excites my tranfient indignation ; but as an eloquent teacher of morality he fills me with more lafting reverence and affection . : His lives of the poets will probably give birth , in this or the next century , to a work ...
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... poem that do not belong to him . Though my work has been executed in a retired village of England , my enquiries have extended far beyond the limits of our own country , by the aid of fome intelligent and obliging friends , who had the ...
... poem that do not belong to him . Though my work has been executed in a retired village of England , my enquiries have extended far beyond the limits of our own country , by the aid of fome intelligent and obliging friends , who had the ...
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... poems , whofe beauties and blemishes have been elaborately examined in critical differtations , that almost rival in excellence the poetry they discuss ? Affuredly but little ; yet there remains , perhaps , one method of giving a B ...
... poems , whofe beauties and blemishes have been elaborately examined in critical differtations , that almost rival in excellence the poetry they discuss ? Affuredly but little ; yet there remains , perhaps , one method of giving a B ...
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... poem , which cannot be too warmly admired , as a monument of filial ten- dernefs , and poetical enthufiafm . It is probable , that the severe manner in which that indulgent father had been driven from the pursuits of learning induced ...
... poem , which cannot be too warmly admired , as a monument of filial ten- dernefs , and poetical enthufiafm . It is probable , that the severe manner in which that indulgent father had been driven from the pursuits of learning induced ...
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