| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 str.
...original deficience cannot be supplied. The J£ 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 10 ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
| 1901 - 628 str.
...original deficiency 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... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 str.
...as a task." Johnson, in his "Life of Milton," in the Lives of the Poets, says: " ' 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." For other remarks... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 str.
...as a task." Johnson, in his "Life of Milton," in the Lives of the Poets, says: " ' 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." For other remarks... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 str.
...original deficiency 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_du^MratheiJtban a pleasure. We read Milton... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 294 str.
...indeed, discovered profound mysteries in the last ; but in what could not Coleridge 1 ' 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. . . .' — Lives... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 str.
...is his peculiar power to astonish. . . . 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 str.
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 str.
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 str.
...what is not unexpected cannot surprise. . . . 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 it up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We... | |
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