 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 - 1886 - 516 pages
...knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of I human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the / books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets tof tal£e up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its pejrusal is a duty rather tEan a pleasure.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...of Johnson, i. 227. of of British greatness shall be obliterated1.' Yet of Paradise Lost he writes, 'None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal...recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions V This truth, if it be a truth, most men would have hidden from themselves, and all other critics would... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 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."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pages
...from the sound of darkness. 1 Johnson differed from Minim in this. " None ever wished Parodist Lost longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." — Johnson's Works, vii. 135. J Perhaps borrowed from The Rambler, No. 86. See ante vol. i , p. 169.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 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...inconvenience of Milton's design is, that it requires 30 the description of what cannot be described, the agency of spirits. He saw that immateriality supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...cannot be supplied. The want of /human interest's always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the nWoK^rfnch ,the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to...retire harassed and overburdened, and look *. elsewhere for^recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions. ?3l/\ Another inconvenience of Milton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1893 - 190 pages
...reading public in their heart of hearts is inclined to endorse Dr. Johnson's judgment, that Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down and forgets to take up again ; that none ever wished it longer than it is ; that its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 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...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and over30 burdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions.... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 218 pages
...of the Poets," considers Milton's poetry, and finally makes the terribly candid remark: " ' Paradise Lost ' is one of the books which the reader admires...recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions." Now, such may certainly be the case with many who read " Paradise Lost," but if it is, they have missed... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 218 pages
...of the Poets," considers Milton's poetry, and finally makes the terribly candid remark: " ' Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires...recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions." Now, such may certainly be the case with many who read " Paradise Lost," but if it is, they have missed... | |
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