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Page ii
... proved highly injurious to Milton's reputation , and , still more , to our literature . One of his recent biographers , who must , therefore , make but slight account of his prose writings , even goes so far as to lament he should ever ...
... proved highly injurious to Milton's reputation , and , still more , to our literature . One of his recent biographers , who must , therefore , make but slight account of his prose writings , even goes so far as to lament he should ever ...
Page iii
... prove his title to a kingdom in the realms of thought , by subduing into praise and admiration whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to owe ...
... prove his title to a kingdom in the realms of thought , by subduing into praise and admiration whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to owe ...
Page vi
... proved that poetry necessarily indisposes men towards freedom , inculcating a slavish abandonment of our rights , to be trampled on by the first tyrannical foot that might itch to tread on them , it were far better that a millstone were ...
... proved that poetry necessarily indisposes men towards freedom , inculcating a slavish abandonment of our rights , to be trampled on by the first tyrannical foot that might itch to tread on them , it were far better that a millstone were ...
Page viii
... prove that the Church of England still stood in need of reformation , and to explain the causes which had hitherto hindered it . In his peculiarly nervous and masculine eloquence he describes the corruptions of the gospel introduced by ...
... prove that the Church of England still stood in need of reformation , and to explain the causes which had hitherto hindered it . In his peculiarly nervous and masculine eloquence he describes the corruptions of the gospel introduced by ...
Page ix
... prove the unconvertible enemies of reformation ; for , with all their incapacity , they want not the wit to perceive , that so soon as justice and a regard for the public good shall become the di- recting principles of government , the ...
... prove the unconvertible enemies of reformation ; for , with all their incapacity , they want not the wit to perceive , that so soon as justice and a regard for the public good shall become the di- recting principles of government , the ...
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