 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is ng^ art,Jbr there__js nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, — easy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 pages
...already felt. Johnson, as even Professor Raleigh has to admit, was a little hard upon ' Lycidas.' ' In this poem, there is no nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 678 pages
...already felt. Johnson, as even Professor Raleigh has to admit, was a little hard upon ' Lycidas.' ' In this poem, there is no nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...nothing less relevant. " In this poem," he says, " there is no nature, for there is no truth , there ia no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that...therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Gowley... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 pages
...rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where _there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. F " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; i^ there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its formjs that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...satyrs' and 25 ' 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;...pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever 30 1 images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction... | |
 | 1907 - 888 pages
...works of Milton, who had almost ceased to be read. Johnson has this and much more to say of "Lycidas" : "Its form is that of a pastoral, — easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting!" Unharmed by ridicule and contempt, Milton and the poets of the romantic period have taken their places... | |
 | Richard Elsner - 1908 - 106 pages
...combinations of fancyful invention nie überwinden können; Milton's1 Gedicht „Lycidas" verwirft er; denn in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth (L. o. th. EP I, 163). Knight ist der Ansicht, dass invention beoomes more easy, the fitrther it departs... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. . . . In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions." "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." The mixing of "sacred truths" was regarded as little short of sacrilege. (Ed. Hill, I, 163.) These... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there / is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability... 
