 | William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 pages
...inconvenience," said Johnson — how eloquent is the word " 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 and woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1920 - 300 pages
...of one characteristic of Virgil's poetic mind. Johnson complained of Paradise Lost 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 and woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in... | |
 | 1979 - 188 pages
...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 be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...private allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprise 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... | |
 | John McCormick - 1971 - 348 pages
...on Paradise Lost is pertinent: '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... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
..."the want of human interest" in Paradise Lost.*6 "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... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...des Lesers zur Sympathie, zum sympathetischen Nachvollzug übersteigt: {Paradise Lost, HS] 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... | |
 | S. L. Edwards - 1953 - 220 pages
...(First edition 1779-81) JOHN MILTON 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 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... 
