 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. ' In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Harvey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is " little grief. . . In this poem there is no nature, for there is " nothing new. Its form is that of a...exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatis" faction on the mind. . . We know that they never drove " a-field, and that they had no flocks... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...the effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author.'... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 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...no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that ยง' Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Lycidas, of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowlcy tells of Horvoy that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how ':nuch he must miss the... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer in a, sense, and nothing less relevant. "In this poem," he says, "there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Oowley... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - Criticism - 1881 - 214 pages
...Lycidas," wherein he says, " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. . . In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 pages
...of rough satyrs and/auns 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...supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent I improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When / Cowley tells of Hervey that they... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...colors. But, at the same time, he transformed their diction, and employed poetry in a new service." vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and... | |
 | 1882 - 486 pages
...diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers nnpleasing. ... In this poem there is no natnre, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new.'' Regarding the Sonnets he says, " they deserve not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can... | |
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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... 
