 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...rough fatyr$ and fauns ivith cloven heeL Where there is leifure for fi&ion there is little grief. Li this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; 6 haufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fafyn and fauns icith c/oven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pafroral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting: whatever images it can lupply, are long ago exhaufled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are Jong ago exr haufted ; and its inherent improbability al- ' ways forces diflatisfaction on the mind.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfacr.ion on the mind. When Cowley tells. of Hervey that they ftudied together, it is eafy to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nalkire, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there...exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they fludied together, it is eafy to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. 4 In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral,...difgufting; whatever images it can fupply are long age exhaufted; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfa&ion on the mind. WhenCowley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fidtion, there is little grief. In this poem there is nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral,...difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply are long ngo exhaulled; and its inherent improbability always forces diiTatisfaction on the mind. Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they ftudied together, it is eafy to... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Mincius, nor tells of rough "satyrs and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this Poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...rough satyr* \fims-Mth cloven fuel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. luftts poem there is no nature, for there is no truth, there is no art, for there ing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therrfore instating; whatever images... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability... 
