 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 173von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 Seiten
...But original dcficience 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. Its perufal is a duty .rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harraffed and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 Seiten
...But original déficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human interelt is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruftion, retire har-. railed and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 Seiten
...original deficienee cannot be fuppliecl. The want of human intereft is always felt. f/ Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 Seiten
...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 for inftru&ion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 Seiten
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Lojl 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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 Seiten
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human jntereft 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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 Seiten
...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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 Seiten
...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. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 Seiten
...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 perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
 | 1796 - 524 Seiten
...Hammond, Collins, Gray, Shenitone, and Akeniide, and his pronouncing the " Paradifs Loft" " one of thofe books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take it up again." In his judgments of thefe poets, he may be juii.ly accufed of being inflamed by prejudice,... | |
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