| John Milton - 1895 - 134 страници
...general reading public in their heart of hearts is inclined to endorse Dr. Johnson's judgment, that 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 ;... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 428 страници
...knowledge. But original deficiency cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. ( Paradise Lost * is one of the books which the reader...We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overbxirdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions. Another... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 страници
...'Paradise Lost' as a task." Johnson, in his "Life of Milton," in the Lives of the Poets, says: " ' Paradise Lost ' is one of the books which the reader...is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." For other remarks on Milton see page 376. Page 346, line 1. So ends "King Lear." Lamb means that the... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 страници
...performed to Milton is weakened, by his pronouncing " Paradise Lost " " an object of forced admiration ; one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to tak« up again." In his derogatory estimate of lf Lycidas," that " surely no man could have fancied... | |
| C. C. Barfoot - 1982 - 234 страници
...predicament of the audience that has 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 epic,10... | |
| James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 страници
...the imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy"; and "no one ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure." 13. Of course Johnson uses the word "pride" somewhat differently in the two papers, allowing it to... | |
| Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 страници
...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, on... | |
| J. S. Borthwick - 1991 - 308 страници
...Sarah, sitting at the back of the room, listened with half an ear, remembering Dr. Johnson's words that "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader...up again. None ever wished it longer than it is." Even Professor Merlin-Smith seemed to be suffering from the reading, although the student's monotone... | |
| Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 страници
...aesthetic disabled conventional criticism and surpassed the interests of the common reader: 'Paradùe Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again' (p. 183). Here, allying himself with die common reader, Johnson gains critical revenge for the experience... | |
| John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 страници
...Johnson's famous (or infamous) remarks about the reader's response to Paradise Lost. He calls it a book "the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to...longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure."2 This seems a surprising conclusion, for Johnson's commentary on the poem begins with the... | |
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