 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 - Page 82edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...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... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 894 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...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 pages
...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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