 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns 'with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fidion there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufling : whatever images it can fupply, are long ; ago exhaufted; and its inherent improbability... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfacr.ion on the mind. When Cowley tells. of... | |
 | 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...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey... | |
 | 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
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...rough "satyrs and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...whatever images it can fupply are long ago exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfaction. on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...rough satyrs and_/azflw with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth,...there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply, are... | |
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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... 
