 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 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...design, may claim the first place, and with respect 15 to performance, the second, among the productions of the human m,jrid. By the general consent of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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,... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 páginas
...examine Parodise Lost, a ^oem which, considered with reipect to design, may claim the first place, atid with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind (170). . . . The moral of other poems is incidental and consequent; in Milton's only it is essential... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 páginas
...poems he speaks in high terms, while of " Paradise Lost " he writes that " with respect to design, it may claim the first place, and, with respect to performance, the second place among the productions of mankind." In his paper on Dryden he emphasizesthe author's work in the... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 348 páginas
...poems he speaks in high terms, while of " Paradise Lost " he writes that " with respect to design, it may claim the first place, and, with respect to performance, the second place among the productions of mankind." In his paper on Dryden he emphasizesthe author's work in the... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1915 - 430 páginas
...Poets). 1800 Lives, 4 vols. 1790 Lives, 6 vols. 1801 Lives, 3 vols. 1790-1 Lives, 4 vols. 1801 Works, "I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which,...the second, among the productions of the human mind (l~o). . . . The moral of other poems is incidental and consequent; in Milton's only it is essential... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - 1915 - 436 páginas
...1801 Works, 1816, 1818, 1819, 1825, 1826. 1840, 1905. 227] THE BIOGRAPHICAL TREATMENT OF MILTON 135 "I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which,...the second, among the productions of the human mind (170). . . . The moral of other poems is incidental and consequent; in Milton's only it is essential... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 454 páginas
...Yet if Johnson does Lycidas scant justice, he has made amends by the high and true praise he gives to Paradise Lost : ' a poem which, considered with respect...to performance the second, among the productions of human kind.' The Lives of Dryden, Addisou, and Pope, when every discount has been made, are masterly... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 páginas
...Milton's character, opposed blank verse, and ridiculed Lycidas and the sonnets, commended the epic as "a poem which, considered with respect to design,...second, among the productions of the human mind." 2 Goldsmith, too, though he shared many of Johnson's prejudices, had a hand in the preparation of a... | |
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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. 
