...tells of rough tatyrs and fauns with eleven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothmg new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images...

...tells of rough saty rs' and fauns with clovrn keel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there...and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supr.ly are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improhability always forces dissatisfaction on the...

...tells of rough sa~ tyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there...therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are i iare long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind....

...tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there ii nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever...

...which, Dr. J. afterwards says, may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost. C. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; i^Jhere is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral : easy, vulgar, and,...

...satyrs and ' fauns with cloven heel*' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. t. , . In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbahility always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they stndied...

...tells o rcugh satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little d throughout his life to retain the disposition which ho assigns to the " Chprch-of-England Us form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images ii can supply...

...tells of rough satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little eed his I ts form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply...

...the right. " In this poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth : there is ho art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." ....." Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd...

...meant when a benefit was offered to her. Of the poem of ' Lycidas' Dr. Johnson thus speaks : — " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces distraction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...