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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... poet , whofe memory I have fervently wished to rescue from indignity and detraction . The afperity of Johnson to- wards Milton has often . ftruck the fond admirers of the poet in various points of view ; in one moment it excites ...
... poet , whofe memory I have fervently wished to rescue from indignity and detraction . The afperity of Johnson to- wards Milton has often . ftruck the fond admirers of the poet in various points of view ; in one moment it excites ...
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... poet abounds ; you have heard him declaim against the admiration excited by the poetry of Milton , and affirm it to be nothing more than the cant ( to use his own favourite phrase ) of affected sensibility . I have prefumed to fay ...
... poet abounds ; you have heard him declaim against the admiration excited by the poetry of Milton , and affirm it to be nothing more than the cant ( to use his own favourite phrase ) of affected sensibility . I have prefumed to fay ...
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... poets will probably give birth , in this or the next century , to a work of literary retaliation . Whenever a poet arifes with as large a portion of fpleen towards the critical writers of past ages , as Johnson in- dulged towards the poets ...
... poets will probably give birth , in this or the next century , to a work of literary retaliation . Whenever a poet arifes with as large a portion of fpleen towards the critical writers of past ages , as Johnson in- dulged towards the poets ...
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... poet of reafon rather than of fancy ; but I apprehend his choice was influenced by an idea ( I believe a mistaken idea ) that moral fatire is the fpecies of poetry by which a poet of modern times may render the greatest service to ...
... poet of reafon rather than of fancy ; but I apprehend his choice was influenced by an idea ( I believe a mistaken idea ) that moral fatire is the fpecies of poetry by which a poet of modern times may render the greatest service to ...
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... poet of morality , I rejoice in recollecting , that you are on the point of making him considerable amends , and of ful- filling a prediction of mine , by removing from the pages of Pope a great portion of the lumber with which they ...
... poet of morality , I rejoice in recollecting , that you are on the point of making him considerable amends , and of ful- filling a prediction of mine , by removing from the pages of Pope a great portion of the lumber with which they ...
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