Evidence: | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730:
'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with those I threw out, under influence of that back-handed inspiration, which his malevolent genius had filled me with, as I drew in the bad air of his pages [...] One might venture on a very new use of two writers: I would pick out my friends and my enemies, by setting them to read [italics]Milton[end italics] and [italics]Cowley[end italics]. I might take it for granted, that I ought to be afraid of his [italics]heart[end italics], who, in the fame and popularity of the first, could lose sight of his malice and wickedness.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Aaron Hill |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | Prose writings |
Genre: | Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27993 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 2 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family (London, 1804), 1, p. 2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27993, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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