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The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise ... - Page 65
by William Hayley - 1799
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with fome degree of merriment...liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchodl. This is the period of his life from which...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftrudlcd. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with fome degree of merriment...great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftcns home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...be boarded and.initructed.' He then breaks off his narrative to. exclaim, * Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to .look with fome degree of...and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, bccaufe ЬЦ countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action,...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...He then breaks off his narrative to. exclaim, ' Let not our veneration for Alilton forbid us to ^ook with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and...performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe hi^ countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours...
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Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate ...

Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...their want of candour, or want of veracity. Page 24. It is thus written : " Let not " our veneration for Milton forbid us to " look with fome degree of merriment " on great promifes and fmail perfor" mances, on the man who haftens home " becaufe his countrymen are contend" ing for their...
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REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...their want of candour, or want of veracity. Page 24. It is thus written : " Let not " our veneration for Milton forbid us to " look with fome degree of merriment ".on great promifes and fmail perfor" mances, on the man who haftens home " becaufe his countrymen are contend" ing for their...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...breaks off his narrative to exclaim, * Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with fume degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who battens home, becaufe his 'countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...Milton forbid us to look with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and final! performance, --dh. the man who -haftens home, be'ca'ufe -his countrymen...liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding fchool. this is the period of his life from which...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftru&ed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us .to look with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and frnall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with fbme degree of merriment on great promlies and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home,...for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of a&ion, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool This is the period of. his life from...
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