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THE

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OF

Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

BY ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq.

VOLUME THE EIGHTH.

LONDON:

Printed by Luke Hanfard, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields;

For H. Baldwin, J. Johnfon, G. G. and J. Robinson, P. Elmfly, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, H. L. Gardner, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, Leigh and Sothebys, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nico!, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, C. Davis, J. Matthews, T. Egerton, J. Edwards, P. M'Queen, Ogilvie and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, B. C. Collins, E. Newbery, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, J. Deighton, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington Allen and Co. J. Stockdale, G. Cuthell, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell jun. and Davies, J. Barker, Carpenter and Co. T. Hurft, W.Miller, Murray and Highley, S: Bagfter, J. Harding, J. Hatchard, J. Wallis, R. H. Evans, and J. Mawman,

1801.

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PREFACE*

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An ESSAY on MILTON'S USE and IMITATION of the MODERNS in his PARADISE LOST. ·

[ First published in the Year MDCCL. ]

IT T is now more than half a century fince the PARADISE LOST having broke through the clouds with which the unpopularity of the author, for a time, obfcured it, has attracted the general admiration of mankind; who have endeavoured to compenfate the errour of their first neglect, by lavish praises and boundless veneration. There feems to have arifen a conteft, among men of genius and literature, who should moft

"It is to be hoped, nay, it is expected, that the elegant and nervous writer, whofe judicious fentiments, and inimitable file 66 points out the author of Lauder's Preface and Poftfcript, will no "longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers, who appears "fo little to have deserved his affiftance; an affiftance which I am "perfuaded would never have been communicated, had there been "the least fufpicion of those facts which I have been the instru66 ment of conveying to the world in thefe fheets."-Milton vindicated from the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and grofs impofitions or the publick. By John Douglas, M. A. Rector of Eaton Conftantine, Salop, 8vo. 1751, p. 77.

VOL. VIII.

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