1. Samuel Johnson's Criticism of Paradise Lost
... and juvenile; in bidding his friend to hurry and come with him in search of secret islands and undiscovered seats, Thales is exposed as childlike. Rees notes that in his epic, 'Milton uses the term, 'happy seat', or its variants to designate paradise',18 it appears that he does so at least four times.19 One might argue that ... ...
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