 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost : a Poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater cars. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to th$ writer of an epick poem,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pagine
...the critic entertains of the production in the aggregate. " With respect to design ( says he ), it may claim the first place, and with respect to performance,...the second among the productions of the human mind. " The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critieks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pagine
...greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of crities, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater care. 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, «mong the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of eriticks the first praise . of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagine
...greater work calls for greater care. .I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagine
...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performanc, the second, among the productions of th e human mind. By the general consent of criticks,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pagine
...the pen of Johnson only could have written. " Considered with respect to design," he claims for it " the first place, and with respect to performance,...the second, among the productions of the human mind ;" and, in passing final sentence, pronounces it, " not the greatest of heroic poems only, because... | |
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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. 
