 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 pàgines
...has therefore little natural curiosity or sympathy. ... 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. ' As Mr. Pattison says, Adam and Eve are 'exceptional beings';... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pàgines
...knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. The J£ 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 10 ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 134 pàgines
...general reading public in their heart of hearts is inclined to endorse Dr. Johnson's judgment, that Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down and forgets to take up again ; that none ever wished it longer than it is ; that its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure ;... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...performed to Milton is weakened, by his pronouncing " Paradise Lost " " an object of forced admiration ; one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to tak« up again." In his derogatory estimate of lf Lycidas," that " surely no man could have fancied... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 1982 - 234 pàgines
...predicament of the audience that has been invited to partake in his and their creation. Dr Johnson said that 'Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again'. Whatever the justice of this famous slight and its relevance to the true greatness of Milton's epic,10... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pàgines
...under him . . . (Sunk, you note, not sank.) And the great lexicographer: Paradise Lost is one of those books which the reader admires and lays down, and...again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. . . . SAMUEL JOHNSON Talking about little children, on their way to school: Then off they start anew... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - 308 pàgines
...Sarah, sitting at the back of the room, listened with half an ear, remembering Dr. 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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pàgines
...universal 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... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pàgines
...aesthetic disabled conventional criticism and surpassed the interests of the common reader: 'Paradùe Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again' (p. 183). Here, allying himself with die common reader, Johnson gains critical revenge for the experience... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pàgines
...Johnson's summary claim about the reader's reaction to the poem: 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... | |
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