 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 1032
...Paradise Lost,' i he truth of Dr. Johnson's observation must be to a considerable extent allowed, that it is ' one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' Much of this inattention is no doubt owing to the character of this ago. Learned poetry suits us not.... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...Paradise Lost,' the truth of Dr. Johnson's observation must be to a considerable extent allowed, that it is ' one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' Much of this inattention is no doubt owing to the character of this age. Learned poetry suits us not.... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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 - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...original delieience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise Lost1' ¡я e very numerous, and his subjects various. With his theological works I am only enough acquainte wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction,... | |
 | 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 878
...Moreover, "the substance of the narrative Is truth." And how does he sum up the result? "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 le. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." I believe that this is,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 906
...compositions of Prior, Collins, Gray, and Akenside ; because they pronounce the Paradise Lost ' one of those books which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again.' See Milton's Life, p. 249. " I am sure I have read, either in Dr. Johnson's works, or in the records... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...be supplied: the want of human interest is always felt. ' Paradise Lost' is one of the books whieh 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 instruetion;... | |
 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...Gray, who believed that poetry cannot be written in blank verse, who thought " Paradise Lost," " a book which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again," snd who himself wrote poems which no one W reads, not being thereunto obliged by some literary duty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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 that it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction,... | |
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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. 
