 | John Milton - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...reading public in their heart of hearts is inclined to endorse Dr. Johnson's judgment, that 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 ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...cannot be supplied. The want of /human interest's always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the nWoK^rfnch ,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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...Poets," considers Milton's poetry, and finally makes the terribly candid remark: " ' 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...Poets," considers Milton's poetry, and finally makes the terribly candid remark: " ' 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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...original deficiency 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...little natural curiosity or sympathy. ... 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. ' As Mr. Pattison says, Adam and Eve are 'exceptional beings'; we cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...original deficience cannot be supplied. The J£ 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 10 ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for... | |
 | 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...original deficiency 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,... | |
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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. 
