| Arthur Beatty - 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...But original deflcience 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 for instruction,... | |
| William B. Cairns - 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...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 for instruction,... | |
| 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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. (Vol. IX, p. 173.) Bead... | |
| Robert Anderson - عدد الصفحات: 696
...performed to Milton is weakened, by his pronouncing " Paradise Lost " " an object of forced admiration ; one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to tak« up again." In his derogatory estimate of lf Lycidas," that " surely no man could have fancied... | |
| C. C. Barfoot - 1982 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...audience that has been invited to partake in his and their creation. Dr Johnson said that 'Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again'. Whatever the justice of this famous slight and its relevance to the true greatness of Milton's epic,10... | |
| Bill Moore - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...under him . . . (Sunk, you note, not sank.) And the great lexicographer: Paradise Lost is one of those books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. . . . SAMUEL JOHNSON Talking about little children, on... | |
| J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...the back of the room, listened with half an ear, remembering Dr. Johnson's words that "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." Even Professor Merlin-Smith seemed to be suffering from the reading,... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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 for instruction,... | |
| Tim Fulford - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...aesthetic disabled conventional criticism and surpassed the interests of the common reader: 'Paradùe Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again' (p. 183). Here, allying himself with die common reader, Johnson gains critical revenge for the experience... | |
| John L. Mahoney - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...claim about the reader's reaction to the poem: 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 instruction,... | |
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