 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 - 82. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1800Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 oldal
...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,...respect to performance the second, among the productions 20 of the human mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 oldal
...MILTON's 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, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 oldal
...Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine ' Paradise Lost,' a poem which,...place, and with respect to performance the second, 10 among the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics the first praise of genius... | |
 | 1901 - 628 oldal
...MILTON'S 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...the second, among the productions of the human mind. •:::* "I cu s GO 13 o g g I 3 M -r, a ing imagination to the help of reason. Epic poetry undertakes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 oldal
...Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine ' Paradise Lost'; a poem which,...design, may claim the first place, and with respect 15 to performance, the second, among the productions of the human jgjnji By the general consent of... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 oldal
...for the human imagination to rise.— BE ATTIE, JAMES, 177679, An Essay on Poetry and Music, p. 85. I am now to examine "Paradise Lost, " a poem which,...the second, among the productions of the human mind. . . . There is perhaps no poem, of the same length, from which so little can be taken without apparent... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 oldal
...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, 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 oldal
...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, 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 oldal
...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, 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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