 | Books and bookselling - 1796 - 524 pages
...Hammond, Collins, Gray, Shenitone, and Akeniide, and his pronouncing the " Paradifs Loft" " one of thofe books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take it up again." In his judgments of thefe poets, he may be juii.ly accufed of being inflamed by prejudice,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...forgets to take up again. Its penifal is a dmy..ratfr e,r th".'l. j 111 fiflfll rt - We read Mil-, ton for inftruction, retire harrafled and overburdened,...elfewhere for recreation ; we .defert our mafter, and feek fgr^companions." Another inconvenience of Milton's defign is, that it requires the defcription of what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...But original deficicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lest 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 - 1801 - 476 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wifhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton... | |
 | History - 1802 - 684 pages
...intereil is always felt. /'.•• rtuii/e Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and laydown, and forgets to take up again : its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftru&ion, retire ha raffed and overburdened, and look elfewhere for recreation ; we defert our mailer,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...But original derkience cannot be suppKed. The want of human interest is alvvays 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 ills. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...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. Its peri/sal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...which poetry consists. 28. It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the losks, 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 - 1806 - 482 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human inrereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wilhed it longer than it is. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...For the Literary Magazine. MILTON, HIS METRE AND HIS IMITATORS. JOHNSON says, that the 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. We... | |
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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. 
