 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
 | University of Wisconsin. Department of English - 1918 - 414 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. Milton, from Lives of the Poets In both of these there is much artifice. But the first has about it... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 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. Milton, from Lives of the Poets In both of these there is much artifice. But the first has about it... | |
 | 1921 - 930 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. As a specimen of Johnson's conversation this extract has only one fault — that it is too consecutive... | |
 | 1923 - 342 pàgines
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 | 1923 - 346 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...is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. (Vol. IX, p. 173.) Bead in Macaulay 's punctuation, and we should have Macaulay 's sentences. As they... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pàgines
...lines 50-70. 3. Lises, II, 206-07. 4. Ibid. I, 437. I02 DOCTOR JOHNSON wished it longer than it is. ... We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and...for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions."1 This last quotation brings up again Johnson's opinion of the purpose of art. That he... | |
 | 1924 - 458 pàgines
...in inspiration. Paradise Lost 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. — Samuel Johnson. "Paradise Lost" is not a book among books, not a poem among poems, but a central... | |
 | 1925 - 806 pàgines
...Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? It must be said at the outset that Milton did not make a very happy entrance into the world of English... | |
 | 1927 - 522 pàgines
...great poem : " 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. " DIPLOMES D'ETUDES SUPÉRIEURES (1926). Besançon, — Arcadian Imagery (Mlle Fourquet). Toulouse.... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 286 pàgines
...one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever 45 wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? It must be said at the outset that Milton did not make a very happy entrance into the world of English... | |
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