 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? 112 " We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening...yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions gives vent to his grief by studying philosophical treatises on that affection of the mind. Marmontel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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 Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 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 a judge of his skill in piping, and how one god asks another god, What is become of Lycidas ? and how... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping : but Milton dignifies and adorns tiicse common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 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,...skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 800 pages
...criticisms. When he says of Lyeidas, " 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 Lyeidas, and how neither god can tell," — modern critics, for the most part, can only... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 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...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 irreverent... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 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,...his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves, will excite no sympathy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1870 - 374 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... | |
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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,... 
