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" The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can... "
Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations - Page 33
by Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 239 pages
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...private allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprizes neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 15, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pages
...of the Paradlfe Löß comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The man and woman who aft and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaftion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he c»n by any effort of imagination...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lest has this inconvenience, that it comprises neitb* human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffa are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reade finds no transaction in which...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience, thatit comprifes neither human actions nor human manners....are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever fcnow. The reader finds no tranfactioh in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which ho...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 22

1802 - 684 pages
...falfe. The plan of Para&ft Loft has this inconvenience, that it compriles neither human aäions ndr human manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer, are in a (late which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaclion in which he can be...
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Charaktere der vornehmsten Dichter aller Nationen: nebst ..., Volume 7

Johann Gottfried Dyck, Georg Schaz - 1803 - 460 pages
...atterbinge, aber ber Scrfiic^ miélang, tnbem er t ) Johnfon ©. 246. The plan of Paradife Loft has thîe inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human actions...manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer, are in a (late which no. other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...private allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lea has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...the honour of our country ! " The plan of " Paradise Lost" has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions, nor human manners. The man and woman, who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...private allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a itate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pages
...he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The Man and Woman, who aft and fufFer, are in a ftate which no other man...
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