The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 44
... supposed to have written the declaration of the reasons for a war with Spain . His agency was considered as of great importance ; for , when a treaty with Sweden was artfully suspended , the delay was publickly imputed to Mr. Milton's ...
... supposed to have written the declaration of the reasons for a war with Spain . His agency was considered as of great importance ; for , when a treaty with Sweden was artfully suspended , the delay was publickly imputed to Mr. Milton's ...
Pagina 58
... supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He , long before , had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he ...
... supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He , long before , had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he ...
Pagina 74
... didly and numerously attended . Upon his grave there is supposed to have been no memorial ; but in our time a monument has been erected in Westminster Abbey " to the author of Paradise Lost , " by Mr. Benson , who has 74 MILTON.
... didly and numerously attended . Upon his grave there is supposed to have been no memorial ; but in our time a monument has been erected in Westminster Abbey " to the author of Paradise Lost , " by Mr. Benson , who has 74 MILTON.
Pagina 78
... supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have expected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His char- acter of Dryden , who ...
... supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have expected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His char- acter of Dryden , who ...
Pagina 111
... supposed that the writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and ex- alted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Re- gained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please , like an union of ...
... supposed that the writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and ex- alted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Re- gained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please , like an union of ...
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