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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. "
The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Página 176
1796
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Dante and Other Waning Classics: Dante, Milton, Bunyan, A. Kempis, St ...

Albert Mordell - 1915 - 148 páginas
...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...
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Joseph Fawcett, The Art of War: Its Relation to the Early Development of ...

Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 páginas
...deflcience 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 rather than a pleasure. We read...
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British Criticisms of American Writings, 1783-1815: A ..., Volumen 2

William B. Cairns - 1918 - 526 páginas
...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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read...
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University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, Números 1-3

1918 - 712 páginas
...deflcience 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 rather than a pleasure. We read...
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Philological Quarterly, Volumen 2

1923 - 346 páginas
...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. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. (Vol....
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One Thousand Best Books: The Household Guide to a Lifetime's Reading; a ...

1924 - 458 páginas
..."Paradise Lost," and superior to it in technique if inferior in inspiration. Paradise Lost 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...
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Harper's Magazine, Volumen 150

1925 - 806 páginas
...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...
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Literary Blasphemies

Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 288 páginas
...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 45 wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"?...
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Revue de l'enseignement des langues vivantes, Volumen 44

1927 - 522 páginas
...Discuss the following pronouncement of Dr Johnson on Milton's great poem : " 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...
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Literary Blasphemies

Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 286 páginas
...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 45 wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"?...
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