 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...  Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century - Strana 388úprava: - 1911 - Počet stránok 724Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - Počet stránok 752
...Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells o rcugh y deserted their principles, yet without running into...disposition which ho assigns to the " Chprch-of-England Us form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images ii can supply... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 716
...passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and...there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief." Again — " When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Počet stránok 716
...obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mmcius, I ts form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Počet stránok 468
...and writer of philosophy; and therefore when his daughter dies he In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,111 and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Počet stránok 472
...passion ; for passionjnins not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and...Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.109 Where_jhexe is leisure for fiction there w little grief.110 1<r7 If by little tilings we are... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - Počet stránok 900
...cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. lu this poem there is nc nature, for there is nothing new : its form is that of a pastoral....disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long mgo exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forées dissatisfaction on the mind. ! When Cowley... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - Počet stránok 424
...harsh, its rhymes as uncertain, the numbers unpleasing, and its want of feeling, — " In ' Lycidas ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, with a yet grosser fault, — its approach to impiety by the indecent mingling of trifling fictions... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - Počet stránok 340
...passion ; for passion inns not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and...tells of rough satyrs and 'fauns with cloven heel.' When there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - Počet stránok 116
...passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and...grief. ' In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1870 - Počet stránok 374
...Milton's Lycidas (which is an elegy on a lost companion of his studies), that " passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy ; nor calls upon Arethuse...tells of rough Satyrs and Fauns with cloven heel" To which Wharton very properly answers, " but poetry does this: and in the hands of Milton does it... | |
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