...explains the durability of that most famous of epigrams in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires...take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is."8 Yet if Milton's poem and the Eden it depicts are conceived only as a standard of plausible perfection,...

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...ästhetisches Vergnügen ungetrübt ist, denn "[t] he want of human interest is always feit. Pa.ra.dise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires...forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer thanit is."156 Erhabenheit und ästhetisches Vergnügen kommen bei Johnson kaum zur Deckung,157 und...

...differences between them with regard to reading. For example, Johnson writes, regarding Paradise Lost, "Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We...and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation" (ibid., 183-84). On the one hand, we could say that Johnson is describing the difficulty of reading...