 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 - Pągina 169per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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). Besanēon, — Arcadian Imagery (Mlle Fourquet). Toulouse.... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 286 pągines
...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... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pągines
...the imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy"; and "no one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." 13. Of course Johnson uses the word "pride" somewhat differently in the two papers, allowing it to... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - 308 pągines
...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... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pągines
...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... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pągines
...reader's response to Paradise Lost. He calls it a book "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."2 This seems a surprising conclusion, for Johnson's commentary on the poem begins with the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pągines
...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" (para. 252). Such criticism sounds final, but it is much modified when taken in context, representing... | |
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