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Page vi
... things which have lain so long in obscurity , are not only worth reviving , but distinguished for the most rare elo- quence and powers of reasoning ? Hazlitt used to say that Coleridge had a trick of preferring the unknown to the known ...
... things which have lain so long in obscurity , are not only worth reviving , but distinguished for the most rare elo- quence and powers of reasoning ? Hazlitt used to say that Coleridge had a trick of preferring the unknown to the known ...
Page xxxiv
... things besides threats which he disliked in a college life : Johnson , by altering his words , says what was more than threats , was probably punishment ; ergo , Milton must be thought , what I think it impiety to write . It is a common ...
... things besides threats which he disliked in a college life : Johnson , by altering his words , says what was more than threats , was probably punishment ; ergo , Milton must be thought , what I think it impiety to write . It is a common ...
Page xxxv
... things , one is certain : either Johnson had not read the prose works of Milton , and therefore knew not whom he might have praised or blamed ; or , if he had read them , he was on easy terms with his conscience , and wrote like a ...
... things , one is certain : either Johnson had not read the prose works of Milton , and therefore knew not whom he might have praised or blamed ; or , if he had read them , he was on easy terms with his conscience , and wrote like a ...
Page xxxvi
... things ; else he could never , in the same page with the above , have said , " there is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His wants , being few , were competently supplied . " He was not necessitated ...
... things ; else he could never , in the same page with the above , have said , " there is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His wants , being few , were competently supplied . " He was not necessitated ...
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... things , which indeed I earnestly desire : the one , not to be at all wanting , as far as in me lies , to this most noble cause and most worthy to be recorded to all future ages : the other , that I may appear to have myself avoided ...
... things , which indeed I earnestly desire : the one , not to be at all wanting , as far as in me lies , to this most noble cause and most worthy to be recorded to all future ages : the other , that I may appear to have myself avoided ...
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