 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 again17. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...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 for instruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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 for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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 for instruction,... | |
 | 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 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,... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 pages
...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 for instruction,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 for instruction;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...original dencicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise Lost" less favourable wished it longer titan it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction,... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...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 and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its pernsal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' second cantos of ' Chikle... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
