...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/auns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there...

...diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers nnpleasing. ... In this poem there is no natnre, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new.'' Regarding the Sonnets he says, " they deserve not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can...

...together in our chivalry. (d) Dost thou thirst, base Trojan, To have me fold up Parca's fatal web? (e) In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. 3. Give some account of the works usually published under the name of Caedmon. 4. Give some account...

...' ; and of Lycidas, that its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing, that ' in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new,' that it is ' easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting,' — after which he goes through the different...

...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...

...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...Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough 'satyrs' and 'fawns with cloven heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief." But this criticism...

...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 passionT perform such simple acts of literary art as the construction of clear sentences,...

...its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing, that ' in this poem ll^^flMjfe nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new,' that it is ' easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting,' — after which he goes through the different...

...and such is everywhere the case. With his treatment of Milton everyone is familiar. In ' Lycidas ' " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." Its form is " easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers...

...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...there is leisure for fiction there is little grief," — Criticism on Milton's Lycidas. " There are so many competitors for the fame of cleanliness that...