 It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 144by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...there is perhaps more poetry than sorrow : but let us read it for its poetry. It is true, that passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls...upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of "rough Satyrs with cloven heel :" but poetry does this ; and in the hands of Milton does it with a peculiar and irresistible... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 402 pages
...one, that ' its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, and its numbers unpleasing;' and of another, 'in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth.' If, therefore, Milton wrote the shorter poems, he evidently did not write the longer one. Youth is... | |
 | John Tomlinson - English poetry - 1869 - 192 pages
...'the diction harsh and the numbers unpleasing,' or, in respect to the sentiment, object that ' passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls...Arethuse and Mincius,' nor tells of 'rough satyrs and fawns with cloven heel.' Had the poet chosen to emulate a standard agreeable to modern versification,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1870 - 374 pages
...objects to Milton's Lycidas (which is an elegy on a lost companion of his studies), that " passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy ; nor calls...tells of rough Satyrs and Fauns with cloven heel" To which Wharton very properly answers, " but poetry does this: and in the hands of Milton does it... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...there is' perhaps more poetry than sorrow. But let us read it for its poetry. It is true that passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Hindus, nor tells of rovijh Satyrs with cloven heel. But poetry does this : and in the hands of Milton... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...and neither plucks berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor talks of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. " Where...there is leisure for fiction there is little grief." South in one of his * With regard to metaphor, on the other hand, "if we attend to what occurs in real... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...it as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions, and neither plucks berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor talks of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. " Where there is leisure for fiction there is little... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...there is perhaps more poetry than sorrow : but let us read it for its poetry. It is true, that passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of "rou^h batyrs with cloven heel :" but poetry does this ; and in the hands of Milton does it with a... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...moment of the passion. If passion " runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions," if passion " plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius," neither does passion perform such simple acts of literary Art as the construction of clear sentences,... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 pages
...effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls...no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that ยง' Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Lycidas, of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever... | |
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