 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
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 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...tells of ' rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel V ' Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief4.'In this poem there is no nature, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 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...Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough ' satyrs' and 25 ' fauns with cloven heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem... | |
 | Richard Elsner - Edinburgh review - 1908 - 106 pages
...combinations of fancyful invention nie überwinden können; Milton's1 Gedicht „Lycidas" verwirft er; denn in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth (L. o. th. EP I, 163). Knight ist der Ansicht, dass invention beoomes more easy, the fitrther it departs... | |
 | Abraham Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - English language - 1912 - 410 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...there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. (3) Edward Eggleston on George Eliot. What peculiarities of George Eliot's are likely to leave a strong... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions." "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." The mixing of "sacred truths" was regarded as little short of sacrilege. (Ed. Hill, I, 163.) These... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 536 pages
...foul of Milton's Lycidas: "Its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing; .... in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new; .... it is easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." In our own time Mark Pattison pronounces this same... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1916 - 244 pages
...on ' Lycidas,' viz., " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." 6. Explain the allusions in the following extracts : — (a) " Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing » Such... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...ihre Einfachheit packen, 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, where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief.144) Dies ist Johnsons bekanntes abschätzendes... | |
 | Scotland - 1916 - 402 pages
...elaborate artificiality of form. He looks for pathos in "Lycidas" and he feels with Dr. Johnson that "in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ... he who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ". But he is wrong. The subject of " Lycidas " is not... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1918 - 236 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...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... | |
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