Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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... Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the character of Waller ; “ but , in my own opinion , I have rather " over - rated it . " He has however made ample amends for this lenity ...
... Some may think , " fays the Doctor , in this fame poetical scale , " that I have " under - valued the character of Waller ; “ but , in my own opinion , I have rather " over - rated it . " He has however made ample amends for this lenity ...
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... some degree of merriment on great promises and fmail perfor- ❝mances , on the man who haftens home " because his countrymen are contend- " ing for their liberty , and when he " reaches the fcene of action vapours 66 away << 66 away his ...
... some degree of merriment on great promises and fmail perfor- ❝mances , on the man who haftens home " because his countrymen are contend- " ing for their liberty , and when he " reaches the fcene of action vapours 66 away << 66 away his ...
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Francis Blackburne. Brutality is a word of an ill found , and required some instances to justify the imputation of it . When these are given , we will readily join iffue in the trial , whether Milton or his adverfaries were the more ...
Francis Blackburne. Brutality is a word of an ill found , and required some instances to justify the imputation of it . When these are given , we will readily join iffue in the trial , whether Milton or his adverfaries were the more ...
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... Some portions of common fenfe how- ever are yet left among us . Witness the following remark , transcribed from the news - paper above cited . " With what emphafis do minifters " and men in power pronounce the words 66 SER- " SERVICE ...
... Some portions of common fenfe how- ever are yet left among us . Witness the following remark , transcribed from the news - paper above cited . " With what emphafis do minifters " and men in power pronounce the words 66 SER- " SERVICE ...
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... some " curious and ingenious forts of manu- " facture that were proper for women " to learn , particularly imbroideries in " gold and filver . " And how far this branch of education was from being either mean or penurious in those days ...
... some " curious and ingenious forts of manu- " facture that were proper for women " to learn , particularly imbroideries in " gold and filver . " And how far this branch of education was from being either mean or penurious in those days ...
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Page 266 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 172 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
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Page 235 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Page 333 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 293 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
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