In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability... Curiosities of Criticism - Page 134by Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufling : whatever images it can fupply, are long ; ago exhaufted;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...rough fafyn and fauns icith c/oven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pafroral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting: whatever images it can lupply, are long ago exhaufled... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...rough fatyr$ and fauns ivith cloven heeL Where there is leifure for fi&ion there is little grief. Li this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...of rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore ' difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nalkire, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...rough "satyrs and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...rough satyr* \fims-Mth cloven fuel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. luftts poem there is no nature, for there is no truth, there is no art, for there ing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therrfore instating; whatever images... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral; eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply are long ago exhaufted... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...rough satyrs and_/azflw with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth,...there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply, are... | |
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