 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 1032 pages
...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 - 534 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...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 None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...Milton excelled. 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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1848 - 906 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...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 - 346 pages
...universal 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...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 and lays down, and?orgets to take up again. None ever wished it longeidliaJi it isr It-- pcrusal is a duty rather... | |
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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. 
