 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 σελίδες
...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...to take up again. None ever wished it longer than ills. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 σελίδες
...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...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for istruction, retire harassed and over -burdened, and look elsewhere for recreation* !' If we dip PART... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 σελίδες
..." 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 σελίδες
...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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 508 σελίδες
...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 CHAF. than it is.... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 σελίδες
...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...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for inttruction, retire harrassed, and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 σελίδες
...Johnson remarks of the Paradise Lost, " its perusal is rather a duty than a pleasure ; it is one of those books which the reader admires, and lays down and forgets to take up again." To one excellence of Milton, -however, the great critic, whom I 'have cited, •is blind. Milton was... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 σελίδες
...with each other, would only be to imitate Mr. Stockdale in his trifling and prolixity. That " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again," is a sentence of which the justice is too irresistibly and universally felt, to be censured as absurd,... | |
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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... 
