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‘SAM. JOHNSON.’
Оглавление[Page 227: Milton’s grand-daughter. Ætat 41.]
[Page 228: Lauder’s imposition. A.D. 1751.]
His just abhorrence of Milton’s political notions was ever strong. But this did not prevent his warm admiration of Milton’s great poetical merit, to which he has done illustrious justice, beyond all who have written upon the subject. And this year he not only wrote a Prologue, which was spoken by Mr. Garrick before the acting of Comus at Drury-lane theatre, for the benefit of Milton’s grand-daughter, but took a very zealous interest in the success of the charity[672]. On the day preceding the performance, he published the following letter in the ‘General Advertiser,’ addressed to the printer of that paper:
