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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.; In Twelve Volumes
The Works of Samuel Johnson L L D In Twelve Volumes Author:Samuel Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Original Publisher: William Durell Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Notes: This is a black and white OCR repr... more »int of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE TO AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S AJfJ) IMITATION OF THE MODERNS In ins PARADISE LOST. [First published in the year 1750. J | T is now more than half a century since the ParaDise Lost, having broke through the clouds with which the unpopularity of the author, for a time, obscured it, has attracted the general admiration of mankind; who have endeavoured to compensate the error of their first neglect, by lavish praises and boundlessveneration. There seems to have arisen a contest, among men of genius and literature, who should most advance its honour, or best distinguish its beauties. Some have revised additions, others have published commentaries, and all have endeavoured to make their particular studies, in some degree, subservient to this general' emulation. " It is to be hoped, nay, it is expected, that the elegant and nervous writer, whose judicious sentiments, and inimitable style, points out the author of Lander's Preface and Postscript, -will no longer allow one to plume himself with hit feathers, who appears so little to have deserved his assistance; an assistance which, I am persuaded, would never have been communicated, had there been the least suspicion of those facts which I have been the instrument of conveying to the world in these sheets." -- Milton vindicated from, the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Mr. Louder, and Lander himself convicted of ...« less