 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...received universal praise. If ' Paradise Regained ' has been too much depreciated, 'Samson Agonistes' has in requital been too much admired. It could only...of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...and received universal praise. If Paradise Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only...of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton, that a drama can... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English drama - 1858 - 200 pages
...arose, to show that the Greeks used it; it is necessary to show that it is effective. Johnson says, that "it could only be by long prejudice and the bigotry...of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages:" and his tragedy of Irene sufficiently proves that he himself, in his practice, adopted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...depreciated, "Sampson Agonistes" has in requital been too much admired. It could only be by long prej udice, and the bigotry of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with their incumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages; and it is only by a blind... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...claimed and received universal praise. If Paradise Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson AgwiwAu has in requital been too much admired. It could only...of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1882 - 1192 pages
...Cumberland, (quoted po*t.) "If 'Paradise Regained' has been too much depreciated, 'Samson Agonlstes" has. fn requital, been too much admired. It could only be...the bigotry of learning that Milton could prefer the am-lent tragedies, with the- encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibition* of the French an<i Enclish... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...and received universal praise. If Paradise Regained has been too much depreciated, Sampson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only...that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with 20 their encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...received universal praise. If " Paradise Regained " has been too much depreciated, " Samson Agonistes " has in requital been too much admired. It could only...of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient 30 tragedies, with their encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages... | |
 | Laura Johnson Wylie - Criticism - 1894 - 242 pages
...remorselessly applied its accepted standard to the works of antiquity and of its contemporaries. " It could only be by long prejudice and the bigotry...learning that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, 1 V Evolution des Genres, I. 177, 178. with their incumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 pages
...kale, seakale etc.). 1. 6. the least successful effort...: 'It could only be,' says Dr. Johnson, ' by long prejudice and the bigotry of learning, that...of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that his drama can... | |
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Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only be by long prejudice, and the bigotry of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with their encumbrance of a chorus, to the... 
