 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 str.
...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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 str.
...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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We • read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 str.
...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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 str.
...his encomiasts, that in reading ' Paradise Lost,' we read a book of universal knowledge. the bonks 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... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 str.
...Society, vol. i. t Genie du Christianisme. terest," says the latter," 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 Milton... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 str.
...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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 str.
...original dencicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. " Paradise Lost" less favourable None ever wished it longer titan it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
 | 1871 - 608 str.
...Works, vol. vii. p. 142. In the ' Life of Milton,' .vol. vi. p. 173, he had said: '" 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 pernsal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' second cantos... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 str.
...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 agnin. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 str.
...confesses, in terms frequently animadverted upon, and not calculated to be soon forgotten. " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader 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 harassed and overburthened,... | |
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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. 
