 | 1979 - 188 páginas
...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 wishes it longer than it is. Its persual is a duty rather than a pleasure. (Lives,... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 1982 - 234 páginas
...been invited to partake in his and their creation. Dr Johnson said that 'Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again'. Whatever the justice of this famous slight and its relevance to the true greatness of Milton's... | |
 | M. K. Naik - 1985 - 304 páginas
...Analysis of All About H. Hatterr MK Naik Dr. Johnson's description of Paradise Lost as 'one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again' is well-known. All About H. Hatterr — an acknowledged masterpiece — has suffered an even... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 páginas
...under him . . . (Sunk, you note, not sank.) And the great lexicographer: Paradise Lost is one of those books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. . . . SAMUEL JOHNSON Talking about little children,... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - 308 páginas
...room, listened with half an ear, remembering Dr. Johnson's words that "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." Even Professor Merlin-Smith seemed to be suffering... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...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... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy . . . 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" (Lives 1: 181, 183). The final sentence, a particular... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 páginas
...reader's reaction to the poem: 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... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 páginas
...Masque, and Paradise Lost ("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").46 Striking at Milton's role as the great... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 páginas
...observation seems to come: "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" (para.... | |
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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. 
