...An Essay on Poetry and Music, p. 85. I am now to examine "Paradise Lost, " a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...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...

...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...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,...

...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...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,...

...a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...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,...

...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...

...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 emphasizes the author's work in...

...has made amends by the high and true praise he gives to Paradise Lost : ' a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...to performance the second, among the productions of human kind.' The Lives of Dryden, Addison. and Pope, when every discount has been made, are masterly...

...blank verse, and ridiculed Lycidas and the sonnets, commended the epic as "a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...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...

...from a single sentiment. The Paradise Lost comes next to be examined : " A Poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...second among the productions of the human mind." Dr. Johnson's criticism on this immortal work extends through fifty pages. To give any adequate idea of...

...Poets (1779). Johnson joined the general chorus in praise of Paradise Lost, "a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place,...second, among the productions of the human mind." On the whole, however, his treatment of Milton is reactionary. Milton's politics Johnson loathed, and...