The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page xiii
... nature of the fubject will admit . The other critics in your language feem to this day to have had no other defign than to fatisfy their own coun- trymen , without taking any concern about any body elfe . Though I think that they would ...
... nature of the fubject will admit . The other critics in your language feem to this day to have had no other defign than to fatisfy their own coun- trymen , without taking any concern about any body elfe . Though I think that they would ...
Page xxviii
... natural inclinations , than by the disci- pline of the place . But perhaps I am less partial to the place because it detains you , whofe abfence I regret . You rightly observe that there are too many there who pollute all learning ...
... natural inclinations , than by the disci- pline of the place . But perhaps I am less partial to the place because it detains you , whofe abfence I regret . You rightly observe that there are too many there who pollute all learning ...
Page xxix
... nature in which force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ...
... nature in which force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ...
Page xxxiv
... nature of the narrative , you afk me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- fcribe actions and events in a way fuited to their dignity and importance , ought to write with a mind ...
... nature of the narrative , you afk me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- fcribe actions and events in a way fuited to their dignity and importance , ought to write with a mind ...
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... nature , it is a rare chance ; but their devotion mont commonly comes to that queazy temper of lukewarmness , that gives a vomit to God himself . But what do we fuffer misfhapen and enormous pre- latifm , as we do , thus to blanch and ...
... nature , it is a rare chance ; but their devotion mont commonly comes to that queazy temper of lukewarmness , that gives a vomit to God himself . But what do we fuffer misfhapen and enormous pre- latifm , as we do , thus to blanch and ...
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