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...resolved by them. • Let us then hear Dr. JOHNSON : " I am now to examine PARADISE LOST ; a poem which, with respect to DESIGN, may CLAIM the FIRST PLACE,...SECOND, among the productions of the human mind." — Dr. Johnson. I will next beg Mr. CAMPBELL to answer, plainly, if this poem claim the FIRST PLACE,...

...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which,...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick...

...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which,...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick...

...Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety; a greater work' calls for greater care. I am now to~ examine Paradise Lost; a poem, which,...the productions of the human mind. By the general consentof criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires...

...Those little pieces may be 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 claim. the first.place, and with ; respect to performance the second, among the productions • of the human mind....

...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...productions of the human mind. By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic peeai, as it requires an assemblage...

...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...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, as it requires an assemblage...

...Those little pieces may be despatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine "Paradise Lost;" a poem, which,...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, as it requires an assemblage...