 Among 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 a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention,...  Works - Page 39by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, •with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a.college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less...sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination.... | |
 | 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...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 raise their... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, -with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less...his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves, will excite no sympathy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...Phoebus, Neptune and .¿Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less...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
...and Phœbns, Neptune and /Moins, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 pages
...and Phoebus, Neptune and yEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy, he... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less...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. Ho who thus grieves... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...and Phoebus, Neptune and JSolns, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less...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 thus grieves... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pages
...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . We hear how one god asks another, what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He...sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' . . . and so on ; finishing up with this final blow : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or .less...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... | |
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