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...Waller. '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...

...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...

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

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

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...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,...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 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 to performanc, the second, among the productions of th e human mind. By the general consent of criticks,...

...is Johnson more consistent in his account of Milton's works. He terms the Paradise Lost a Poem which with respect to design may claim the first place,...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...