 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...sultry horn, Battening onr flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield and had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought,... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - Authors, English - 1887 - 216 pages
...in speaking of " Lycidas," " can be excited by these lines ? We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain, and remote, that it is never sought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to' batten ; and though it be allowed that the 10 representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the iresti dews of night. We know that they never drove & field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the 10 representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so 20 uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...horn, Battening onr flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field and had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...our flocks with the fresh dews of night." f ' We know that they never drove afield, and that they 15 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought,... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 pages
...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field and had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...sultry hom, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the repre10 sentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
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We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it... 
