 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...never succeeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without...of the human mind. ***\ By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...never succeeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without...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, as it requires an assemblage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater...considered with respect to design, may claim. the first.place, and with ; respect to performance the second, among the productions • of the human mind.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...little pieces may be dispatched without much -anxiety; a greater work calls for greater c,are. I am DOW to examine ' Paradise Lost ;' a poem, which, considered...first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic peeai, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions.... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...of poetry. Having dismissed his examination of the merits of the former works, he thus proceeds : « I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pages
...never succeeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without...the general consent of critics, the first praise of geniua is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...never succeeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...never succeeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Those little pieces may be despatched without...mind. By the general consent of critics, the first [>raise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
