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 - Page 161by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...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...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbuy* dened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert oar master, and seek for companions.... | |
| David Booth - 1831 - 366 pages
...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...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and look for companions."... | |
| Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master and seek for companions;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,... | |
| Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 464 pages
...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions ;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...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...a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthencd, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
| Thomas Jackson - 1834 - 554 pages
...feel themselves in the situation of the readers of Paradise Lost, which Dr. Johnson thus describes : " We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and...recreation. We desert our master, and seek for companions." The defect in this case was not in Mr. Watson's spirit, but in the abilities and feelings of the persons... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...knowledge. But original dencicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise ore or less favourable titan it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire liarrassed... | |
| 1871 - 608 pages
...Johnson's Works, vol. vii. p. 142. In the ' Life of Milton,' .vol. vi. p. 173, he had said: '" Paradise Lost " is one of the books which the reader .admires...again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its pernsal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' second cantos of ' Chikle Harold,' he awoke and found himself... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...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 agnin. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...confesses, in terms frequently animadverted upon, and not calculated to be soon forgotten. " 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 harassed and overburthened,... | |
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