 | Henry Arthur Treble - English prose literature - 1930 - 270 pages
...such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 768 pages
...no flocks to batten«. 19. ebenda: »Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor.« 20. ebenda, } (Lyttelton), 456: »It is sufficient blame to say that it is pastoral.« 21.... | |
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Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas,... 
