 I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.  Lives - Σελίδα 82επεξεργασία από - 1800Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 σελίδες
...Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. >9 g i critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | 1837 - 474 σελίδες
...analysis of his great work, " Paradise Lost," than by borrowing the language of Dr. Johnson : — " It is a poem which, considered with respect to design, may...the second among the productions of the human mind. The subject is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire... | |
 | 1838 - 894 σελίδες
...a subject for its theme. " I am now to examine the Paradise Lost," says the immortal Samivcll — " a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...the second among the productions of the human mind." Now in opposition to this claim of pre-eminence, "with respect to design," there comesa very learned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 σελίδες
...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine * Paradise Lost ;' a poem, which,...productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 σελίδες
...Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. and rapid ; Pope is alwa ;o performance, the second, among the produc:ions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 σελίδες
...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which,...productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 σελίδες
...exceptions that he takes, an honest and enthusiastic admirer. He speaks of the " Paradise Lost "as "a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...the second among the productions of the human mind." Milton's numerous editors aud biographers and all the writers on English literature, as far as I am... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 σελίδες
...JOHNSON. By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem ; as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 σελίδες
...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine "Paradise Lost;" a poem, which,...productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius ' is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 σελίδες
...and unfamiliar diction. EXTRACTS. LIVES OP THE POETS. LIFE OF MILTON — REMARKS ON " PARADISE LOST." I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem which, considered...productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
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