| Nathan Drake - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...poetical worth, would be told that his " Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It is true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...poetical worth, would be told that his " Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It i? true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruftion, retire harafled and overburdened,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...poetical worth, would be told that his "- Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It is true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...Johnson remarks of the Paradise Lost, "its perusal is rather a duty than a pleasure ; it is one of those books which the reader admires, and lays down and forgets to take up ag.iin." To one excellence of Milton, however, the great critic, whom I have cited, is blind. Milton... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...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...perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton foy instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, "and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...After displaying, in the noblest manner, many of the peculiar excellencies in the poem, he says, " its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure ; we read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...life anJ action 3 . C. ways felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and hji down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Iti perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 294
..."None ever wished it longer than it is;" that its perusal is a duty, rather than a pleasure^' that "we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed,...and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ;" that " we desert our Master, and seek for companions" Were all the Doctor's criticisms conceived... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...performed to Milton is weakened, by his pronouncing " Paradise Lost " " an object of forced admiration ; one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." In his derogatory estimate of " Lycidas," that " surely no man could have fancied that he read it with... | |
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