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...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...

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...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...

...without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine * Paradise Lost ;' a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...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,...

...despatched without much anxiety; 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 ;o performance, the second, among the produc:ions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics,...

...several exceptions that he takes, an honest and enthusiastic admirer. He speaks of the " Paradise Lost "as "a poem, which, considered with respect to design,...the second among the productions of the human mind." Milton's numerous editors aud biographers and all the writers on English literature, as far as I am...

...dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which, considered with respect to design, may...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,...