 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...But original deficicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lest 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 - 1801 - 476 pàgines
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wifhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...universal knowledge. But original derkience cannot be suppKed. The want of human interest is alvvays 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 ills. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 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. Its peri/sal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pàgines
...which poetry consists. 28. It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the losks, 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... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pàgines
...their head. For the Literary Magazine. MILTON, HIS METRE AND HIS IMITATORS. JOHNSON says, that the 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. We... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 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 agam. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pàgines
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human inrereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wilhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 pàgines
...shackled it*; would be in fact to deprive it of its essence. 28. It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the books, which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to * See Alison's Essays on Taste, p. 318. take up again. None ever wished it longer CHAP. than it is.... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 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... | |
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