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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... reader may yet difcern , as in the bud , all the striking characteristics of Milton ; his affectionate fenfibility , his fuperior imagina- tion , and all that native tendency to devotional enthusiasm , Which fets the heart on fire , To ...
... reader may yet difcern , as in the bud , all the striking characteristics of Milton ; his affectionate fenfibility , his fuperior imagina- tion , and all that native tendency to devotional enthusiasm , Which fets the heart on fire , To ...
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... reader's attention to obferve how much the Paradife Loft correfponds with this prophetic wish , " fays Mr. Thyer , one of the most intelligent and libe- ral of English commentators . The young poet , who thus expreffed his ambition ...
... reader's attention to obferve how much the Paradife Loft correfponds with this prophetic wish , " fays Mr. Thyer , one of the most intelligent and libe- ral of English commentators . The young poet , who thus expreffed his ambition ...
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... reader , acquainted with him only as he appears in the page of Johnfon , must suppose him little formed for love ; but his poetry in general , and efpecially the compositions we are now speaking of , may convince us , that he felt ...
... reader , acquainted with him only as he appears in the page of Johnfon , must suppose him little formed for love ; but his poetry in general , and efpecially the compositions we are now speaking of , may convince us , that he felt ...
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... readers to be credited , that neither તું envy nor gall hath entered me upon this controverfy , but " the ... reader , to whom principally for a while I fhall beg leave I ( c may addrefs myself : to him it will be no new thing ...
... readers to be credited , that neither તું envy nor gall hath entered me upon this controverfy , but " the ... reader , to whom principally for a while I fhall beg leave I ( c 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 unaffected modesty . The poet , who speaks with such 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 unaffected modesty . The poet , who speaks with such graceful humility of his literary atchievements , had at this time ...
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