 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He...; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This Ppem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention when they tell how a shepherd has lost a companion, and must feed his flocks alone without any judge of his skill in piping; but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and Л£о1ив, with a long train of myshepherd Whatever the profit of his cmpIojinenU has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 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, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any iudge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 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,...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lvcidas, and how neither god can tell. He wlio thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, Sir Thomu Browne. J Wood, and Life of Sir Thorn«...contentment. But the superio@ gredient and obscured p pod what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can trll. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 990 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, and must now feed his flocks alone ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...such as a college casilv supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now fee<i his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god... | |
 | 1847 - 488 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,...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of skill in piping ; and how one god asks of another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 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,...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of skill in piping ; and how one god asks of another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god... | |
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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,... 
