The Life of Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley, EsqT. Cadell, junior, and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1796 - 328 páginas |
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... remark , how the greatest of our 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 ...
... remark , how the greatest of our 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 ...
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... remark can be expected in a review of 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 ...
... remark can be expected in a review of 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 ...
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... many have excelled " Milton in their firft effays , who never rofe to works like ' Paradife Loft . ” < c This is the first of many remarks , replete with This 12 THE LIFE OF MILTON . to his country, and became Mafter of Jefus College...
... many have excelled " Milton in their firft effays , who never rofe to works like ' Paradife Loft . ” < c This is the first of many remarks , replete with This 12 THE LIFE OF MILTON . to his country, and became Mafter of Jefus College...
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... remarks , replete with detraction , in which an illuftrious author has indulged his fpleen against Milton , in a life of the poet , where an ill - fubdued propen- fity to cenfure is ever combating with a neceffity to com- mend . The ...
... remarks , replete with detraction , in which an illuftrious author has indulged his fpleen against Milton , in a life of the poet , where an ill - fubdued propen- fity to cenfure is ever combating with a neceffity to com- mend . The ...
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... remark of a fimilar tendency . " There is reafon , " fays Johnfon , " to fufpect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness . " To coun- teract << J teract this invidious infinuation we are furnished with 16 THE LIFE OF ...
... remark of a fimilar tendency . " There is reafon , " fays Johnfon , " to fufpect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness . " To coun- teract << J teract this invidious infinuation we are furnished with 16 THE LIFE OF ...
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