The Life of John Milton: In Three Parts. To which are Added, Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. By William Hayley ...W. Porter, 1797 - 342 páginas |
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... reader may yet difcern , as in the bud , all the striking cha- racteristics of Milton ; his affectionate fenfibility , his fuperior imagination , and all that native ten- dency to devotional enthusiasm , Which fets the heart on fire ...
... reader may yet difcern , as in the bud , all the striking cha- racteristics of Milton ; his affectionate fenfibility , his fuperior imagination , and all that native ten- dency to devotional enthusiasm , Which fets the heart on fire ...
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... reader's attention to ob- ferve how much the Paradise Loft corresponds with this prophetic wifh , " fays Mr. Thyer , one of the moft intelligent and liberal of English commenta- tors . 1 The young poet , who thus expreffed his ambition ...
... reader's attention to ob- ferve how much the Paradise Loft corresponds with this prophetic wifh , " fays Mr. Thyer , one of the moft intelligent and liberal of English commenta- tors . 1 The young poet , who thus expreffed his ambition ...
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... reader , acquainted with him only as he appears in the page of Johnson , must suppose him little formed for love ; but his poetry in general , and especially the compofitions we are now fpeaking of , may convince us , that he felt ...
... reader , acquainted with him only as he appears in the page of Johnson , must suppose him little formed for love ; but his poetry in general , and especially the compofitions we are now fpeaking of , may convince us , that he felt ...
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... readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall " hath entered me upon this controversy , but the " enforcement of ... reader , to whom principally for a while I fhall beg leave I may addrefs myself : to him it will be no new thing ...
... readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall " hath entered me upon this controversy , but the " enforcement of ... reader , to whom principally for a while I fhall beg leave I may addrefs myself : to him it will be no new thing ...
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... reader , that he poffeffed , in no common degree , two qualities very rarely united , ambitious ardour of mind and unaf- fected modeity . The poet , who speaks with fuch graceful humility of his literary atchievements , had at this time ...
... reader , that he poffeffed , in no common degree , two qualities very rarely united , ambitious ardour of mind and unaf- fected modeity . The poet , who speaks with fuch graceful humility of his literary atchievements , had at this time ...
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