 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 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...take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Ita perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened,... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires, lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires, lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master... | |
 | Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires, lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...apply the words which that grim old censor Johnson wrote of our great epic, ' It is one of the books which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets...up again ; none ever wished it longer than it is.' Or those which Macaulay used of Spenser's ' Fairy Queen,' ' One unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 again. None ever wished it longer tbau it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 540 pages
...Johnson's observation must be however 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.... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...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...it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather thau a pleasure.' second cantos of ' Childc Harold,' he awoke and found Hlmsel'" famous. These cantos... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 612 pages
...p. 142. In the 'Life of Milton,' vol. ri. p. 173, he bad 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 dun it is. Its perusal is a duty rather tbau a pleasure.' second second cantos of ' Childe Harold,'... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...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...longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than i pleasure." of us has his or her visions shadowed out." " Childe Harold," on his first appearance,... | |
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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. 
