 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,...  The Monthly magazine - Page 120by Monthly literary register - 1839Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...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 harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation : we desert our master, and seek for... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...be supplied: the want of human interest is always felt. ' Paradise Lost' is one of the books whieh 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... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...Gray, who believed that poetry cannot be written in blank verse, who thought " Paradise Lost," " a book which the reader admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again," snd who himself wrote poems which no one W reads, not being thereunto obliged by some literary duty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...universal 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 and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer that it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...admires and lays down, and forgets to tuko up ngiiin. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its ponittal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for Instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhoro fur recreation ; we desert our master and seek for compauionn. Another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...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 and lays down, and?orgets to take up again. None ever wished it longeidliaJi it isr It-- pcrusal is a duty rather... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...it ¡a ! — " Original déficience cannot be supplied: the want of human interest is always felt. '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 Miltuu... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...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 and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Ita perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...universal consent, apply the words which that grim old censor Johnson wrote of our great epic, ' It 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.' Or those which Macaulay used of Spenser's ' Fairy Queen,'... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...the reader admires, 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 harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions.''... | |
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