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. Lives - Página 82editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 páginas
...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,...design, may claim the first place, and with respect 15 to performance, the second, among the productions of the human jgjnji By the general consent of... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...for the human imagination to rise.— BE ATTIE, JAMES, 177679, An Essay on Poetry and Music, p. 85. I am now to examine "Paradise Lost, " a poem which,...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...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 of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic... | |
| John Burnet - 1913 - 162 páginas
...painting: "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 of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic... | |
| George Tobias Flom - 1915 - 436 páginas
...1810, 1816, 1818, 1819, 1825, 1826, 1840, 1847. 1854, 1854, 1858, 1864-5, 1868, 1878, 1886, 1888, 1905. "I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which,...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... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 páginas
...appearances, every disposition of mind takes hold on those by which it may be gratified. writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic... | |
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