 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 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: imt MiUnn dignififiA,and adorns ihese. common -artificial incidents with unexpected ^^ toa^^J^mct^e84ULft.,b£auty,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 802 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... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 178 pages
...it cannot be known ca when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' Again— 'With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths The shepherd is... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 168 pages
...it cannot be known j when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' Again — ' With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths The shepherd... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...Though the representation when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' Again — 'With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths The shepherd is... | |
 | 1874 - 844 pages
...has lost his compan-. ion, 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 grieves can excite no sympathy, he who thus praises will confer no honour." Of course every tyro in criticism... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 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... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...skill in piping ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell. Ho 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 iindeniaLly true. To explain why, in spite of... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 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,... 
