REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.1780 - 381 páginas |
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... must be a Plagiary ; accordingly when the time came that Lauder's ftrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had fwelled into the fize of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a poftfcript ...
... must be a Plagiary ; accordingly when the time came that Lauder's ftrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had fwelled into the fize of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a poftfcript ...
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Francis Blackburne. judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- fpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may ...
Francis Blackburne. judgement , to have qualified him to write like Milton , must have got the better of his imagination ; a confinement of Shake- fpeare's powers not half fo poffible as that Dr. Johnson fhould turn Whig . " Some may ...
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... must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Eng- lishmen , which , in their origin , are nei- ther more ...
... must ever be an eye - fore to men of Dr. Johnson's principles ; principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Eng- lishmen , which , in their origin , are nei- ther more ...
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... must be many competent judges . It would be a pity , however that a confor- mity to this taste should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented himself ; the leaft intimation from ...
... must be many competent judges . It would be a pity , however that a confor- mity to this taste should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented himself ; the leaft intimation from ...
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... must be that genius which has a taste for being flogged or banished ! " It feems plain , " fays the new narra- tive , " from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred ruflication , a tem- ઃઃ porary difiniffion into the ...
... must be that genius which has a taste for being flogged or banished ! " It feems plain , " fays the new narra- tive , " from his own verfes to Diodati , " that he had incurred ruflication , a tem- ઃઃ porary difiniffion into the ...
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Página 231 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Página 203 - 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.
Página 311 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 315 - ... and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument...
Página 270 - ... books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that hapless race of men whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Página 151 - 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.
Página 232 - 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.
Página 296 - Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.
Página 259 - ... 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.
Página 307 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of...