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. The Pamphleteer - Page 19edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
| Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 160 pages
...commences his criticism si Paradise Lost by observing that ' considered with respect to design, it may claim the first place, and with respect to performance,...the second, among the productions of the human mind' ; his lengthy analysis of the poem according to Aristotelian methods of criticism abounds with unaffected... | |
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