| Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...lambs, feels no passion." Of Milton : " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene is Thrale's villa at Streatham. " Mrs Thrale disputed... | |
| René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...and they had no flocks to batten." 1§ "Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor." " Two Ramblers (Nos. 42 and 46) are devoted to a satire on the ideal rural life portrayed by... | |
| Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 pages
...imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. Lycidas 'This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost 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... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pages
...such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.65 Edmund Waller fell into a similar error: He borrows too many of his sentiments and illustrations... | |
| Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...Fair Infant." The impression created by Milton's modification is apparent in Dr. Johnson's summary of "how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell."16 As Johnson perceived, in Lycidas none of the classical gods mourns as they do in classical... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...supplies. Nothing can )<# less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a i jic' shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who "*' " 293 thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem... | |
| James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 pages
...trappings of Lycidas: "We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour."11 To Tennyson as well, the grief that is expressed in figures of cankered roses, frosted flowers,... | |
| Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 pages
...Cambridge University? 'Nothing', he concludes, 'can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; and he who thus praises will confer no honour' (quoted in Patrides, 60-1). What Johnson is objecting... | |
| Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 pages
...imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. (1:2739) By 1779, when Johnson published this assessment in his Life of Milton, the conventions... | |
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