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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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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 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 state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 pages
...— as is said — he in private allowed it to be false. 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 be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 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 state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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Macaulay's Essay on Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 pages
...comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man i 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 be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...private allowed it to be false. CThe plan of ' Paradise Lost ' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer 15 are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 428 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 state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...comprises neither human actions nor. Jumiaujnamieis. The i0 man and woman who act and sufler are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can_ .hfi pngagad — -beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...undertaken and performed. . . . 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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...undertaken and performed. . . . 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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...comprises neither human act1ons 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 be engaged; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination...
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