 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...terror fuch again as human (trength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil forgets to take up Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inllrudion, retire barof. eternity are too ponderous for raffed and overburdened, and look the wings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...But original dcficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty .rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harraffed and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...But original déficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human interelt is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruftion, retire har-. railed and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...original deficienee cannot be fuppliecl. The want of human intereft is always felt. f/ Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays...a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftru&ion, retire harrafled and overburdened, and look 7 elfewhere for recreation ; we defert oup... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human jntereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays...a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled, and overburdened, and look elfewhcre for recreation ; we defert our mafter, and feek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...But original defkience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays...a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled, and overburdened, and look elfewhere for recreation; we defert our mafter, and feek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays...a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harraffed, and overburdened, and look elfewhere for recreation; we defert our mafler, and; feek for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...But original deficience cannot be fupplied'. The want of human intereft is always felt. Paradife Loft is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perufal is a duty rather than a pleafure. We read Milton for inftruction, retire harrafled and... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...But original 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. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and... | |
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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. 
