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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... poetry of Milton from the misrepresenta- tions of cold and callous aufterity . But Mr. Warton had fallen into a miftake , which has betrayed other well- difpofed minds into an unreasonable abhorrence of Milton's profe ; I mean the ...
... poetry of Milton from the misrepresenta- tions of cold and callous aufterity . But Mr. Warton had fallen into a miftake , which has betrayed other well- difpofed minds into an unreasonable abhorrence of Milton's profe ; I mean the ...
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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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... poetry of England ) to exhibit this un- happy little production , in fo confpicuous a manner , as a fpecimen of ... poets had failed in this petty compofition . You , who perfectly know how much more inclined I am to praise than to ...
... poetry of England ) to exhibit this un- happy little production , in fo confpicuous a manner , as a fpecimen of ... poets had failed in this petty compofition . You , who perfectly know how much more inclined I am to praise than to ...
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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 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 ...
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