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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,... "
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... - Page 141
by Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 395 pages
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Johnson the Essayist, His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners: A Study

Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...lambs, feels no passion." Of Milton : " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene is Thrale's villa at Streatham. " Mrs Thrale disputed...
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A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: Volume 1, The Later Eighteenth Century

René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...and they had no flocks to batten." 1§ "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." " Two Ramblers (Nos. 42 and 46) are devoted to a satire on the ideal rural life portrayed by...
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Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: The Minor ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 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...sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. Lycidas 'This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 29

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 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...
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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the ...

J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 292 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,...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.65 Edmund Waller fell into a similar error: He borrows too many of his sentiments and illustrations...
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Death in Milton's Poetry

Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...Fair Infant." The impression created by Milton's modification is apparent in Dr. Johnson's summary of "how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell."16 As Johnson perceived, in Lycidas none of the classical gods mourns as they do in classical...
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John Milton: 1732-1801

John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...supplies. Nothing can )<# less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a i jic' shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who "*' " 293 thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem...
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Annoying the Victorians

James Russell Kincaid - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 288 pages
...trappings of Lycidas: "We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour."11 To Tennyson as well, the grief that is expressed in figures of cankered roses, frosted flowers,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Milton

Dennis Danielson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 320 pages
...Cambridge University? 'Nothing', he concludes, 'can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; and he who thus praises will confer no honour' (quoted in Patrides, 60-1). What Johnson is objecting...
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 292 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...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. (1:2739) By 1779, when Johnson published this assessment in his Life of Milton, the conventions...
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