...knowledge. 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...overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert onr master, and seek for companions. Another inconvenience of Milton's design is, that it requires...

...knowledge. 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...; we desert / our master, and seek for companions. I"""" Another inconvenience of Milton's design is, that it requires the description of what cannot...

...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...• read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbur- . dened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our k master, and seek for companions....

...his encomiasts, that in reading ' Paradise Lost,' we read a book of universal knowledge. the bonks which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbuy* dened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert oar master, and seek for companions....

...Philosophical Society, vol. i. t Genie du Christianisme. terest," says the latter," is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and look for companions."...

...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master and seek for companions;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,...

...the opinion of Dr. Johnson, that " we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburthened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions ;" Fuseli wrote in large letters in the margin of a copy of the " Lives of the Poets," now in my possession,...

...feel themselves in the situation of the readers of Paradise Lost, which Dr. Johnson thus describes : " We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and...recreation. We desert our master, and seek for companions." The defect in this case was not in Mr. Watson's spirit, but in the abilities and feelings of the persons...

...knowledge. But original dencicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise ore or less favourable titan it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire liarrassed...

...Johnson's Works, vol. vii. p. 142. In the ' Life of Milton,' .vol. vi. p. 173, he had said: '" Paradise Lost " is one of the books which the reader .admires...again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its pernsal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' second cantos of ' Chikle Harold,' he awoke and found himself...