 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...offended Romantic critics more than Johnson's comments on "the want of human interest" in Paradise Lost.*6 "The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy . . . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take... | |
 | John McCormick - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 348 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...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.'... | |
 | Richard Bradford - Electronic books - 2001 - 236 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...be engaged: beholds no condition in which he can by an effort of imagination place himself: he has. therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy (304).... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - Autobiography - 2007 - 422 pages
...sympathetischen Nachvollzug übersteigt: {Paradise Lost, HS] comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state...in which he can by any effort of imagination place nimself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.155 Letztlich attestiert Johnson also... | |
 | S. L. Edwards - English prose literature - 1953 - 220 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...Adam's disobedience; we all sin like Adam and like him must bewail our offences ; we have restless and insidious enemies in the fallen angels; and in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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... | |
| |
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. 
