 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
 | 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
...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...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 ;... | |
 | 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
...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...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 ;... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .iSolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell. He who thua grieves... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1904 - 404 pages
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companions, and must now feed his flocks alone; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 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...without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how «^ne god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Aeolus, 15 with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...his skill in piping; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1907 - 280 pages
...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...shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flock alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 pages
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoabus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as...exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost liis companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; how... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 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...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his 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... | |
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