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... censured for this digression as pedantick or paradoxical ; for if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom ...
... censured for this digression as pedantick or paradoxical ; for if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom ...
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... censured , as not being always used with notice of their vanity ; * but they contribute variety to the narration , and produce an alternate exercise of the memory and the fancy . His similes are less numerous , and more various , than ...
... censured , as not being always used with notice of their vanity ; * but they contribute variety to the narration , and produce an alternate exercise of the memory and the fancy . His similes are less numerous , and more various , than ...
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... censured , and at last bear so little pro- portion to the whole , that they scarcely deserve the attention of a critick . Such are the faults of that wonderful performance Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its ...
... censured , and at last bear so little pro- portion to the whole , that they scarcely deserve the attention of a critick . Such are the faults of that wonderful performance Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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