But original déficience 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... Early years and late reflections v. 2 - Página 65de Clement Carlyon - 1856Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Albert Mordell - 1915 - 148 páginas
...incongruities that are part and parcel of its plot." Samuel Johnson spoke for many people when he said: " Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." Of course Walt... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1917 - 326 páginas
...excelled. Moreover, ' the substance of the narrative is truth.' And how does he sum up the result ? ' Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' I believe that this is, openly or secretly, the feeling of ninety-nine out of a hundred educated people... | |
| 1918 - 712 páginas
...that, without theoretical reasoning, dexterity is little more than a brute instinct. Rambler, No. 9. But original déficience cannot be supplied. The want...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master,... | |
| University of Wisconsin. Department of English - 1918 - 414 páginas
...reasoning, dexterity is little more than a brute instinct. Rambler, No. 9. But original deficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is...a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master,... | |
| William B. Cairns - 1918 - 526 páginas
...that, without theoretical reasoning, dexterity is little more than a brute instinct. Rambler, No. 9. But original déficience cannot be supplied. The want...of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is oue of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 304 páginas
...of admiration, and defers the rest." 4 And he finds a like fault with Paradise Lost as one of those books which the reader admires and lays down and forgets to take up again. "None ever 1. Lives, II, 253. 2. A good portion of the first canto of the Art Pottiquc is given up to instructions... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 páginas
...of admiration, and defers the rest." 4 And he finds a like fault with Paradise Lost as one of those books which the reader admires and lays down and forgets to take up again. "None ever 1. Lives, II, 253. 2. A good portion of the first canto of the Art Poétique is given up to instructions... | |
| 1925 - 806 páginas
...it be that Samuel Johnson was right when he declared, with his usual hearty English frankness, that "'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? It must be... | |
| 1925 - 946 páginas
...it be that Samuel Johnson was right when he declared, with his usual hearty English frankness, that '"Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader...admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. No one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? It must be... | |
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