 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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...skill 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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...skill 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 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...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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...flocks and herds, with such imagery as a college can supply. "Nothing can less display knowledge or exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has...skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell.1 Such an account will neither excite sympathy nor... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...talks of goats and lambs, feels no passion." Of Milton : " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...never drove afield, and they had no flocks to batten." 1§ "Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has...skill 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... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 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...skill 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... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 292 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...skill 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 T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...supplies. Nothing can )<# less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a i jic' shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed...skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who "*' " 293 thus grieves will excite no sympathy;... | |
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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... 
