...universal knowledge. But original derkience cannot be suppKed. The want of human interest is alvvays felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the...to take up again. None ever wished it longer than ills. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed,...

...knowledge impregnated his mind, fermented by study, and sublimed by imagination. " But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. F Another inconvenience of Milton's design is, that it requires the description of what cannot be dtscribed,...

...encomiasts, that in reading Paradise Lost we read a book of universal knowledge. But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master,...

...their head. For the Literary Magazine. MILTON, HIS METRE AND HIS IMITATORS. JOHNSON says, that the Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again ; that none ever wished it longer than it is ; that its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We...

...shackled it*, would be in fact to deprive it of its essence. 28. It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the books, which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to * See Alison's Essays on Taste, p. 318. take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Jts perusal...

...shackled it*; would be in fact to deprive it of its essence. 28. It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the books, which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to * See Alison's Essays on Taste, p. 318. take up again. None ever wished it longer CHAP. than it is....

...shackled it*, would be in fact to deprive it of its essence. 28- It is observed by Dr. Johnson, that the Paradise Lost is one of the books, which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to * See Alison's Essayson Taste, p.318. take up again. None ever witfied it longer CHAP. than it is....

...Johnson remarks of the Paradise Lost, " its perusal is rather a duty than a pleasure ; it is one of those books which the reader admires, and lays down and forgets to take up again." To one excellence of Milton, -however, the great critic, whom I 'have cited, •is blind. Milton was...

...inconsistent with each other, would only be to imitate Mr. Stockdale in his trifling and prolixity. That " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...admires, and lays down, and forgets to take up again," is a sentence of which the justice is too irresistibly and universally felt, to be censured as absurd,...

...poetical worth, would be told that his " Paradise Lost" is an object of forced admiration ; that " it is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." It is true, that the critique on the " Paradise Lost," is one of the most splendid and eloquent passages...