 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...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. None ever wifhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...derkience cannot be suppKed. The want of human interest is alvvays 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 ills. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...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. Its peri/sal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human inrereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wilhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...Magazine. MILTON, HIS METRE AND HIS IMITATORS. JOHNSON says, that the 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. We... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...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 agam. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for inttruction, retire harrassed, and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...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 again." To one excellence of Milton, -however, the great critic, whom I 'have cited, •is blind. Milton was... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...be to imitate Mr. Stockdale in his trifling and prolixity. That " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again," is a sentence of which the justice is too irresistibly and universally felt, to be censured as absurd,... | |
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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. 
