 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 oldal
...curiosity or sympathy. ... 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. ' As Mr. Pattison says, Adam and Eve are 'exceptional... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 oldal
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 oldal
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 oldal
...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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 294 oldal
...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. . .... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 oldal
...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 oldal
...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 read Milton... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 oldal
...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 read Milton... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 oldal
...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 read Milton... | |
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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. 
