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" 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 for... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 158
by Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - 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...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

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,...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 7

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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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...But original deficicnce cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lest is one of the books which the reader admires and lays...rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, wire harassed, and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 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,...
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