 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners.* The man and woman who act and suffer arc cal faculty would rush upon him with an impetus or...immediately called to secure what came. At other times he wo wlu'ch he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners.-* The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...natural curiosity or sympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam, and like him must all bewail our offences ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...Paradise Lost ' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself ; he has therefore little natural curiosity or sympathy.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...Lostl hag this inmmTflnionre, thnt it comprises neither human actions nor human jnanners. The mail' and woman who act and suffer are in a state which...can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in whjch ,.h.e_canj)y any effort of imagination place himself ; he has therefore little natural curiosity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
..."Paradise Lost" has this-ineonvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...natural curiosity or sympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's disobedience; •we all sin like Adam, and like him must all bewail our offences;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1864 - 460 pages
..." Paradise Lost" has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he h;u,, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...engaged; beholds no condition in which he can, by any eftbrt of imagination, place himself; he has therefore little natural curiosity or sympathy. We all,... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 106 pages
...Lost," said Johnson, " has this inconvenience that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...has therefore little natural curiosity or sympathy." " But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1886 - 516 pages
...neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which f no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds...natural curiosity or sympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam, and like him must all bewail our offences ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 356 pages
...of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...natural curiosity or sympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam and like him must all bewail our offences ; we... | |
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The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. 
