 There is something in the poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility, that we can never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 212by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five a&s? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for the rooft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. &*. BROOM E. WILLIAMBROOMEwasborn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for the moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. :. > .' u • .. i ..' i. • •... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...FoX, j. EO..V;,:::. PREFACES TO Cf RANVILLE, ROW E, TICKELL, vCONGREVE, FEN TON, VOL. VI. AND I 0 R. GRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRANVILLE, or as others write Greenville, or Grenville, afterwards lord Landfdown of Biddcford in the county of Devon, lefs is known than his name and rank might give reafon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 278 pages
...ANI) PREFACES TO <GRANVILLE, HOWE, TICKELL, -CO NCR EVE, FEN TON, A 3f T> PRIOR. 46X869 * VOL. VI. GRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRANVILLE, or as others write Greenville, or Grenville, afterwards lord Landfdown of Biddeford in the county of Devon, lefs is known than his name and rank might give reafon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred 'lines may be endured; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred lines may be endured; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of lite-r rature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five afts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for tiia moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. C a GRANGRANVILLEOF GEORGE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...will be for the moft part thrown away 4 as men grow wife, and nation; grow learned. GRANGRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRANVILLE, or, as others write, Greenville, or Grenville, afterwards lord Landfdown of Biddeford in the county of Devon, lei's is known than his name and high rank might give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...we can never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and...will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wi~e, and nations grow learned* GRANVILLE. G ft ANVILL E. F GEORGE GRAN V' 1 1 LE, or as others write... | |
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