 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 instruction, retire harassed and overburdened,...  The Monthly magazine - Seite 120von Monthly literary register - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 Seiten
...hyperbole, by one of his encomiasts, that in reading "Paradise Lost" we read a book of universal knowledge. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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. None ever wished it longer than \ it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We • read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...universal 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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 Seiten
...his encomiasts, that in reading ' Paradise Lost,' we read a book of universal knowledge. the bonks 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... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 Seiten
...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...elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and look for companions." Among many other valuable remarks of Dr. Johnson on the Paradise Lost, the following,... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 Seiten
...Philosophical Society, vol. i. t Genie du Christianisme. terest," says the latter," 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 Seiten
...knowledge. But original deftcicnce 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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...knowledge. But original dencicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " ion was more or less favourable None ever wished it longer titan it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
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