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
| George Gregory - 1808 - 352 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 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 inftruftion, retire harafled and overburdened,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 Seiten
...poetical worth, would be told that his "- Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It is true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 Seiten
...poetical worth, would be told that his " Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It i? true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 Seiten
...poetical worth, would be told that his " Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It is true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 Seiten
...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 ag.iin." To one excellence of Milton, however, the great critic, whom I have cited, is blind. Milton... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 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...perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton foy instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, "and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 472 Seiten
...After displaying, in the noblest manner, many of the peculiar excellencies in the poem, he says, " its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure ; we read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...life anJ action 3 . C. ways felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and hji down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Iti perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
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