 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 - Strana 120podľa Monthly literary register - 1839Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - Počet stránok 652
...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 - Počet stránok 484
...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 - Počet stránok 450
...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 - Počet stránok 674
...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 - Počet stránok 504
...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 - Počet stránok 430
...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 - Počet stránok 408
...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 - Počet stránok 366
...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 - Počet stránok 722
...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 - Počet stránok 752
...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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