 Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 142by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...the flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must ndw feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...copses, and flovrers, appear the heathen ueitic.-, ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and' ^Eolus, with a lony train of mythological imagery^ Such as- a College easily supplies. Nothing can k-ss display knowledge, or less exercise inventions, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jov3 and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery; such as...College easily supplies. Nothing can less display kndwledge, or less exercise inventions, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and mus't... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Pheebus, Neptune and -iColus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Noc 3 thing can less display knowledge, or lf.invennon, than to tell how a shepherd ha companion, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^lolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers, fippcar the heathen deities : Jove and , Neptune and .Kohis, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed hig flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .lEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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 j he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and uEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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... | |
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