 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost : a Poem which, considered with respect to design, may...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 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater cars. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...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,...second among the productions of the human mind. " The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. .I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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 страници
...despatched without much anxiety ; 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,... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 страници
...is Johnson more consistent in his account of Milton's works. He terms the Paradise Lost a Poem which with respect to design may claim the first place,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. Before the greatness displayed iu Milton's poem, all other greatness shrinks away ; when he canuot... | |
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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. 
