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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... various and ex- tensive , are fufficiently familiar with those fingular com- pofitions ; and I am not a little gratified in the affurance that you think as I do , both of their blemishes and their beauties , and approve the ufe that I ...
... various and ex- tensive , are fufficiently familiar with those fingular com- pofitions ; and I am not a little gratified in the affurance that you think as I do , both of their blemishes and their beauties , and approve the ufe that I ...
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... various points of view ; in one moment it excites poet laughter , in another indignation ; now it reminds us of the weapon of Goliah as described by Cowley ; " A sword so great , that it was only fit " To cut off his great head that ...
... various points of view ; in one moment it excites poet laughter , in another indignation ; now it reminds us of the weapon of Goliah as described by Cowley ; " A sword so great , that it was only fit " To cut off his great head that ...
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... various farcasms of the austere critic against the object of my poetical idolatry , but I have tried , and I hope with some fuccefs , to correct the animosity they must naturally excite , by turning to the more temperate works of that ...
... various farcasms of the austere critic against the object of my poetical idolatry , but I have tried , and I hope with some fuccefs , to correct the animosity they must naturally excite , by turning to the more temperate works of that ...
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... to acquit Johnfon of male- volence in every article where my reafon will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful neceflity of difplaying x difplaying continually , in the following work , the various DEDICATION ic XHI .
... to acquit Johnfon of male- volence in every article where my reafon will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful neceflity of difplaying x difplaying continually , in the following work , the various DEDICATION ic XHI .
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... various examples of his severity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our spleen than a ftroke of injustice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I fhould be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was ...
... various examples of his severity to Milton . Nothing is more apt to excite our spleen than a ftroke of injustice against an author whom we love and revere ; but I fhould be forry to find myself infected by the acrimony which I was ...
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