 | Education - 1906 - 856 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 offenses; we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...that it comprises neither human actions nor. Jumiaujnamieis. The i0 man and woman who act and sufler are in a state which no other man or woman can ever...know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can_ .hfi pngagad — -beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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 bewail our offenses; we have... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human act1ons 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 bewail our offenses; we have... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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 bewail our offenses; we have... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...performed. . . . The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction iri^whicTT he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - Literary Criticism - 1912 - 368 pages
...eloquent is the word " 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 and woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - Assassination in literature - 1920 - 300 pages
...mind. Johnson complained of Paradise Lost 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 and woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...human mind." "Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem all other greatness shrinks away." But: "the reader finds no transaction in which he can be...beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of the imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy"; and "no one... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprise neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state...be engaged; beholds no condition in which he can by an effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy. 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. 
