 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
 | J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - 308 pàgines
...Johnson's words that "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." Even Professor Merlin-Smith seemed to be suffering from the reading, although the student's monotone... | |
 | Virginia Woods - 1992 - 250 pàgines
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 | Laura Quinney - 1995 - 214 pàgines
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 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pàgines
...it being a common source from which all can draw: 'we read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions' (pp. 183-4). The reader is subordinated to a tyrant, overpowered by a unique language which in deriving... | |
 | William Edinger - 1997 - 114 pàgines
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 | Timothy Miller - 1997 - 368 pàgines
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