...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 cars. 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 criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick 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 criticks, the first praise of genius is due to th$ writer of an epick poem,...

...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...

...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 critieks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem,...

...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 crities, 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, and with respect to performance the second, «mong the productions of the human mind. By the general consent of eriticks the first praise . of...

...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 criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick 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, and with respect to performanc, the second, among the productions of th e human mind. By the general consent of criticks,...

...was supplied by zeal." Nor is Johnson more consistent in his account of Milton's works. He terms the Paradise Lost a Poem which with respect to design...the second, among the productions of the human mind. Before the greatness displayed iu Milton's poem, all other greatness shrinks away ; when he canuot...