1. Samuel Johnson's Criticism of Paradise Lost
... Morton Braund translates as, 'here you'll have a little garden and a well so shallow it doesn't need a rope [] it's something wherever you are [] to make yourself master of a single lizard',6 does not seem like an overwhelmingly attractive prospect, and could indeed be considered ironic. I believe that simpler, more obvious irony is evident in other parts of 'Satire III'. For ... from the original as, 'here you'll have a little garden, and a well so shallow it doesn't need a rope [] It's something wherever you are [] to make yourself master of a single lizard'.11 In Londo...
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