 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
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pàgines
...Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions.''... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pàgines
...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our...companions. Another inconvenience of Milton's design ie, that it requires the description of what cannot be described, the agency ol spirits. He saw that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pàgines
...always felt. " Paradise Lost" is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's prefaces and penisal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overliurthened,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pàgines
...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthencd, en knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope...Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and t I lie description of what cannot be described, the agency of spirits. He saw that immateriality supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pàgines
...always felt. " Paradise Lost" i~ one of the books which the reader admires ami lays down, and forget* to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duly rather than a pleasure. We road Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthened, and... | |
 | 1956 - 596 pàgines
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| 1956 - 616 pàgines
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 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pàgines
...number: what he writes of the Paradise Lost, he would have said of Scripture, if reverence permitted—' Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read...recreation: we desert our master and seek for companions.' But, by those whose faith is strong, whose religious views are bright and cheerful, &c. &c., of such... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 pàgines
...describes: — " 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...pleasure. We. read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 564 pàgines
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