 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...as a task." Johnson, in his "Life of Milton," in the Lives of the 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 it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." For other remarks on Milton... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...as a task." Johnson, in his "Life of Milton," in the Lives of the 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 it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." For other remarks on Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 172
...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_du^MratheiJtban a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...indeed, discovered profound mysteries in the last ; but in what could not 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 it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. . . .' — Lives of the... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...is his peculiar power to astonish. . . . 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 754
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
 | Albert Mordell - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 144
...incongruities that are part and parcel of its plot." Samuel Johnson spoke for many people wh " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." Of course Walt... | |
 | 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...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,... | |
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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. 
