: IOHN MILTON; Containing, befides the history of his works, several extraordinary characters of men, and books, sects, parties, and opinions: WITH AMYNTOR; Or a defenfe of Milton's life: BY IOHN TOLAND. AND UARIOUS NOTES NOW ADDED. VICTRIX CAUSA DIIS PLACVIT, SED VICTA CATONI. LONDON PRINTED FOR IOHN DARBY MDCXCIX. REPRINTED FOR A. MILLAR IN THE STRAND MDCCLXI. I SEND you at length, my best friend, what you have so often and earnestly fol licited me to write, the life of JOHN MILTON, a man eminent at home and famous abroad for his universal learning, fagacity, and solid judgment: but particularly noted as well for those excellent volumes he wrote on the behalf of civil, religious, and domestic liberty; as for his divine and incomparable poems, which, equalling the most beautiful order and expression of any antient or modern compositions, are infinitely above them all for fublimity and invention. Obferving in this performance the rules of a faithful historian, being neither provok'd by malice, |