 The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 169per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pàgines
...we read a book of universal knowledge. the bonks which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbuy* dened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert oar master, and seek for companions.... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 pàgines
...always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and look for companions."... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pàgines
...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master and seek for companions;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 464 pàgines
...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions ;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pàgines
...always felt. " Paradise Lost" is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than...a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthencd, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1834 - 554 pàgines
...feel themselves in the situation of the readers of Paradise Lost, which Dr. Johnson thus describes : " We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and...recreation. We desert our master, and seek for companions." The defect in this case was not in Mr. Watson's spirit, but in the abilities and feelings of the persons... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pàgines
...always felt. ' Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than...recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions !" , Such was Johnson's taste; such his sensibility; such the character of his intellect! Yet this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer titan ent; his imagination, as the " Dacian Battle" proves, was vigorous and active, and the stor liarrassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pàgines
...Paradise Lost" is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up agnin. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal...a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and ovcrburthcned, and look elsewhere for rccrea/ion ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pàgines
...had said: '" Paradise Lost " is one of the books which the reader .admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its pernsal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' second cantos of ' Chikle Harold,' he awoke and found himself... | |
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