Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. Journal to western islands of Scotland

THE

WORKS

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.

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OF THE

E I G H T H VOLUM E.

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S.

Page

Preface to an Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation

of the Moderns in his PARADISE Lost . . -

Letter to the Rev. Dr. Douglas, ocçafioned by his

VINDICATION of Milton. To which are sub-

joined several curious original Letters from the Authors

of the UNIVERSAL History, Mr. Ainsworth, and

Mr. MACLAURIN. By WILLIAM LAUDER, A. M.

First printed in the Year 1751 -

Review of a Free ENQUIRY into the Nature and Origin

of EVIL

POLITICAL TRACTS.

The Fause ALARM [1770]

THOUGHTS on the late Transactions respecting FALK- .

LAND'S ISLANDS (1771] - - - 129

The PATRIOT ; addressed to the Electors of Great Britain

(17741

- - - - - o 14%

TAXATION NO TYRANNY; an Answer to the Refolutions

and Address of the American Congress [1775] . 155

A JOUR,

235

A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS

OF SCOTLAND. Page 209

Slanes Castle. The Buller of Buchan .

Fores. Calder. Fort George

Castle of Col - - - - - 363

PREFACE

P R E F A CE*

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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. 1

IT is now more than half a century since the Para

dise 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 errour of their first neglect, by lavish praises and boundless veneration. There seems to have arisen a contest,, among men of genius and literature, who should most

« * It is to be hoped, nay, it is expected, that the elegant and “ nervous writer, whose judicious sentiments, and inimitable ftile* 5 points out the author of Lauder's Preface and Postscript, will no " longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers, who appears

so little to have deserved his assistance; an assistance which I am 6 persuaded would never have been communicated, had there been 16 the least suspicion of those facts which I have been the inftru. “ment of conveying to the world in these sheets.” -Milton vindicated from the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and grofs impositions or the publick. By John Douglas, M. A. Rector of Eaton Constantine, Salop, 8vo. 1751, p. 77. . VOL. VIII.

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