 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 150by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phrebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without a judge of his skill in piping, and how one god asks another god, What is become of Lycidas ? and how... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phœbus, Neptune and Mollis, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, f than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, ' without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, •with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a.college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge,...skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 800 pages
...Johnson has been terribly mauled by posterity for some of his rash criticisms. When he says of Lyeidas, " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lyeidas, and how neither god can tell," — modern critics, for the most part, can only... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping : but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 374 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention when they tell how a shepherd has lost a companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...combinations.' — JOHNSON. ' Dr. Johnson observes, that Lycidas is filled with the heathen deities, and a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies. But it is such also as 'even the court itself could now have easily supplied. The public diversions,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping: imt MiUnn dignififiA,and adorns ihese. common -artificial incidents with unexpected ^^ toa^^J^mct^e84ULft.,b£auty,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .¿Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pages
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phœbns, Neptune and /Moins, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus... | |
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