Hidden fields
Books Books
" The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can... "
Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations - Page 33
by Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 239 pages
Full view - About this book

The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be :,il(e. The plan of Paradife L»ft ha» this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human...actions nor* human manners. The man and) woman who aft and fuffier, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The readef ' finds no tranfa&ion...
Full view - About this book

The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...comprifes neiiher human aiUons nor human manners. The man and woman who aft and iuifer, are in a ftatc which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaflion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
Full view - About this book

Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...true; and MILTO N. 197: vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human adtions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man...
Full view - About this book

Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...be falfe. The plan of P&radife Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftjons nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer<...other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaftion in which he can be engaged j beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...thought it true; an<d vile and pernicious, clous, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The man and woman who aft. and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradlfe Lojt has this incon,venience, that it comprifes neither...other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfadtion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if} as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience,...actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fufler, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in...
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience,...comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man anl woman who act and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...as ii faidj he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this iticoovenience, that it comprifes neither human actions nor human...other man or woman can ever know* The reader finds no tranfactk>n in which he can by any effort of imagination place himfelf; he has, therefore, little natural...
Full view - About this book

The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1796 - 692 pages
...and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradift Ltft ha* this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who aft and fuller, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfadion...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF