 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Стр. 169авторы: Samuel Johnson - 1816Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - Страниц: 318
...Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down and forgets to take up again. None 10 ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a...recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions. 1 5 Another inconvenience of Milton's design is, that it requires the description of what cannot be... | |
 | 1901 - Страниц: 628
...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...recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions. that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - Страниц: 134
...that none ever wished it longer than it is ; that its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure ; that we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation. This want of appreciation is no doubt partly due to want of intellect and imagination on the part of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - Страниц: 428
...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...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbxirdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions. Another... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - Страниц: 634
...Poets, says: " ' 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...is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." For other remarks on Milton see page 376. Page 346, line 1. So ends "King Lear." Lamb means that the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Страниц: 530
...pleased.' Post, ADDISON, i6z. ' Si on lit Homere par une espece de devoir, on lit et on relit 1'Arioste harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for...recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions '. 253r /Another inconvenience of Milton's design is that it requires whe description of what cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - Страниц: 172
...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 isj^u^jathejjian a .pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - Страниц: 294
...Coleridge 1 ' 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...is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. . . .' — Lives of the Poets : ' Milton.' find a mystery if he wished ? Dryden more wisely remarked... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Страниц: 812
...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...recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, John Milton, Lives of the English Poets. Was there ever anything so delightful... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - Страниц: 126
...perusal of this great poem is a duty rather than a pleasure, that " we read Milton for instruction and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions." "Was there ever anything so delightful," writes Cowper, " as the music of ' Paradise Lost?' " but for... | |
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