| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise...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 páginas
...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater cars. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which,...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 páginas
...rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise...performance, the second, among the productions of the human nairrd. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 484 páginas
...highest terms of his Paradise Lost, and of his genius as a writer. " The Paradise Lost," he says, " is a poem which, considered with respect to design, may...second, among the productions of the human mind.'—" The Subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 páginas
...rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise...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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 páginas
...be often changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work call* for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise "Lost;...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 - 1811 - 420 páginas
...without much anxiety ; a greater work ciills fur greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost; u poem, which, considered with respect to design, may...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 - 1816 - 486 páginas
...rhymes tobeoften changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise...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,... | |
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