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" We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ... - Page 225
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night, We know that they never drove a field, and...fought, becaufe it cannot be known when it is found. . . Among the flocks, and copfes,. and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her futtry horn, . Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and...remote, that it is never fought, becaufe it can.not be-known when it is found. Among the flocks, and copfes, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove...
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Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets

John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 492 pages
...can be excited by thefe lines,' " We " drove afield," &c ? ' We know that ' they never drove afield, and that they * had no flocks to batten ; and though...fought, becaufe it cannot be ' known when it is found.' Cowley fpeaks of Hervey in propria ferfona, Milton is pro tempore a ruftick poet ; one therefore mud...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...together heard \Vhattime the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the licfh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks no batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks no batten ; and though it he allowed that tfie reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and...fought becaufe it cannot be known when it is found. Among the flocks, and copfes, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of We We know that they never drove a field, and that they...fought, becaufe it cannot be known when it is found. Among the flocks, and copfes, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sultry horn, Batt'ning dur flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought,...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...time the gtey fly winds her sultry horn/ Battening oar flocks with the fresh dews of night. ft Vnow that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ? "J though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true anmg is so uncertain...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and...fought, becaufe it cannot be known when it is found. Among the flocks, and copfes, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities; Jove and Phrebus, Neptune and....
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