 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 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,...This poem has yet a grosser fault With these trifling I fictions are mingled the most awful and_sacre.d, truths; such as/ ought never to be polluted with... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - English literature - 1884 - 312 pages
...inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . We hear how one god asks another, what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can...sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' . . . and so on ; finishing up with this final blow : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1886 - 516 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,...asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how ne1ther god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1887 - 222 pages
...judge of his skill in piping; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neithei god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy...; he who thus praises will confer no honour." This is of course utterly outrageous, and yet much of it is undeniably true. To explain why, in spite of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 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 20 god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Artists - 1893 - 546 pages
...emotion underlay these verses, it must be submitted that, in the words of Samuel Johnson about "Lycidas," "he who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour." This conviction will be enforced when we reflect that the thought upon which the madrigal above translated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...knowledge, or less exercise iriv \ntion, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and uimt now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in pip'nrj; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, anJtJwu^neither god can tell.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 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,...one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, 30 and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1902 - 324 pages
...nature, for there is no truth. . . . 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 ;... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...imagery 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,...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell. He who thus grieves... | |
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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,... 
