 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...But original dcficience 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. Its perufal is a duty .rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harraffed and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...But original déficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human interelt is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruftion, retire har-. railed and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...original deficienee cannot be fuppliecl. The want of human intereft is always felt. f/ Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 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 for inftru&ion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human jntereft 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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Lojl 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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 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 for inftruction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 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. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...book of universal knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened,... 
