 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 instruction, retire harassed and overburdened,...  The Monthly magazine - Pàgina 120per Monthly literary register - 1839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1871 - 608 pàgines
...AddisoB,' Johnson's Works, vol. vii. p. 142. In the ' Life of Milton,' .vol. vi. p. 173, he 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pàgines
...knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. 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 agnin. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
 | 1839 - 1032 pàgines
...Paradise Lost,' i he truth of Dr. Johnson's observation must be to a considerable extent allowed, that it is ' one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' Much of this inattention is no doubt owing to the character of this ago. Learned poetry suits us not.... | |
 | 1839 - 534 pàgines
...Paradise Lost,' the truth of Dr. Johnson's observation must be to a considerable extent allowed, that it is ' one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' Much of this inattention is no doubt owing to the character of this age. Learned poetry suits us not.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pàgines
...knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pàgines
...original delieience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise Lost1' ¡я e very numerous, and his subjects various. With his theological works I am only enough None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pàgines
...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its penisal discourses. With Dryden we are Wandering in quest of harrassed and overliurthened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and Beck for... | |
 | 1913 - 878 pàgines
...Milton excelled. Moreover, "the substance of the narrative Is truth." And how does he sum up the result? "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 le. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." I believe that... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 pàgines
...compositions of Prior, Collins, Gray, and Akenside ; because they pronounce the Paradise Lost ' one of those books which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' See Milton's Life, p. 249. " I am sure I have read, either in Dr. Johnson's works, or in the records... | |
 | 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 Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation: we desert our master and seek for companions.' But,... | |
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