 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and Л£о1ив, with a long train of myshepherd Whatever the profit of his cmpIojinenU are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...his flocks alone, without any iudge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He...yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less t v@, Lvcidas, and how neither god can tell. He wlio thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less . In him Pope had the first experience of a critic...much his duty to display beauties as expose faults pod what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can trll. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now fee<i his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in...god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god tan tell. Ho who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has...yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irrevereud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise inventions, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...as a ¡ college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, f than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...without any judge of his skill in piping ! and how ouo god asks another what, is becuoie of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He, who thus grieves,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...mythological imagery, such as a.college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has...sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination.... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 800 pages
...some of his rash criticisms. When he says of Lyeidas, " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has...and how one god asks another god what has become of Lyeidas, and how neither god can tell," — modern critics, for the most part, can only raise their... | |
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Among the flocks, and copses and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention, than... 
