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Page xi
The few notes which are now for the first time published , are partly designed to prove , that Bentley did not generally at7 Dr. Newton's observations on Bentley's Milton are temperate and judicious . See his Pref . p . 32.
The few notes which are now for the first time published , are partly designed to prove , that Bentley did not generally at7 Dr. Newton's observations on Bentley's Milton are temperate and judicious . See his Pref . p . 32.
Page xiii
The whole of this visionary fabric seems to have been built by Bentley on the slender foundation that , owing to Milton's blindness , some mistakes in the text of the poem certainly did occur ; and that such a one , as is found in P. L. ...
The whole of this visionary fabric seems to have been built by Bentley on the slender foundation that , owing to Milton's blindness , some mistakes in the text of the poem certainly did occur ; and that such a one , as is found in P. L. ...
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—πὰρ ἐμοίγε κ ' ἄλλοι , Οι κέ με τιμήσουσι , μάλιστα δὲ μητιέτα ' Ζεὺς . Bentley's ungrounded hypothesis , and the alterations which he built upon it , called forth a volume of remarks from Dr. Zachary Pearce ; which may be recommended ...
—πὰρ ἐμοίγε κ ' ἄλλοι , Οι κέ με τιμήσουσι , μάλιστα δὲ μητιέτα ' Ζεὺς . Bentley's ungrounded hypothesis , and the alterations which he built upon it , called forth a volume of remarks from Dr. Zachary Pearce ; which may be recommended ...
Page lxxvii
Even Bentley , in a MS . note in my copy , has erased ' must ' and written ' most . ' " 22 Dryden owned to Dennis , that when he adapted his state of innocence from Milton , he knew not half the extent of Milton's excellence . ' v .
Even Bentley , in a MS . note in my copy , has erased ' must ' and written ' most . ' " 22 Dryden owned to Dennis , that when he adapted his state of innocence from Milton , he knew not half the extent of Milton's excellence . ' v .
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Bentley over and over again calls him ' elegantissimus . ' ' Solertissimo ingenio - et critica et poetica laude nobilis . ' Burman Pierson ( that admirable scholar ) , Wakefield , and others , bear the strongest testimony to his taste ...
Bentley over and over again calls him ' elegantissimus . ' ' Solertissimo ingenio - et critica et poetica laude nobilis . ' Burman Pierson ( that admirable scholar ) , Wakefield , and others , bear the strongest testimony to his taste ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1 The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, John Mitford |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2009 |
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