 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 - Seite 169von Samuel Johnson - 1816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 Seiten
...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 overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...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...rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, wire harassed, and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...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...Another inconvenience of Milton's design is, that jt requires the description of what cannot be described, the agency of spirits. He saw that immateriality... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...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...a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...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...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for inttruction, retire harrassed, and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...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...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
...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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