 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity.' Johnson's Works, viii. 91. See antt, iv. 1 20. 1 His lines on Pulteney, Earl of Bath, still deserve... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity, iHammond has few sentiments drawn from nature, and few images from modern life. He produces nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Nesera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...feels no passion. He that courts his mistress with Koman imagery deserves to lose her ; for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity. Hammond has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 428 pages
...Where there is fiction, there'is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...with good reason suspect his sincerity. Hammond has fewsentiments drawn from nature, and few images from modern life. He produces nothing but frigid pedantry.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...feels no passion. He that courts his mistress with Homan imagery deserves to lose her ; for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity. Hammond has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion : he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Nesera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...to lose her ; for she may with good reason suspect hissincerity. Hammond has fewsentiments drawn from nature, and few images from modern life. He produces... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats aud lambs, feels no passion. He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves to lose ker : for she may with good ceason suspect his sincerity. Hammond has few sentiments drawn from nature,... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...Where there is fiction, there is no passion ; he that describes himself as a shepherd, and his Neasra, or Delia, as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and...suspect his sincerity. Hammond has few sentiments drawn front Nature, and few images from modern life. He produces nothing but frigid pedantry. It would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...fiction, there is no passion ; he that himself as a shepherd and his Nejera or Delia us a shepherdess, und ions of horror or of bliss. But these truths are too...infancy ; they lave mingled with our solitary thoughts lias few sentiments drawn from nature, and few images from modem life. He produces nothing but frigid... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...fiction, there is no passion ; he that dow-ribe« himself as a shepherd and his Nesera or Delia ns cond.* djtiwn from nature, and few images from modem life. He produces nothing but frigid pedantry. It would... | |
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He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves to lose her ; for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity, iHammond has few sentiments drawn from nature, and few images from modern life. 
