 ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Pągina 141per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 pągines
...critic, who can say of the most exquisite effusion of Doric minstrelsy that our language boasts, " Surely, no man could have fancied, that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author " ; and of " Paradise Lost " itself, that " its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 pągines
...critic, who can say of the most exquisite effusion of Doric minstrelsy that our language boasts, " Surely, no man could have fancied, that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author " ; and of " Paradise Lost " itself, that " its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pągines
...a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they a re lieutenant-colonel, left him about awav the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas" with pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pągines
...superintendant of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, :md at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to liave been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pągines
...Christ inn flock. Such equivocations »re always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, »nd at ”rast ows himself superior will desire to set loose awav the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas" with pleasure,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 pągines
...the critic who can say of the most exquisite effusion of Doric minstrelsy that our language boasts, " Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas' with pleasure, had he not known the author ;" and of " Paradise Lost" itself, that " its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure V... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pągines
...Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they sue indecent, and at Joast approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been eoaccious. amination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas" with pleasure, had ho... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pągines
...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' A llegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform ; every man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pągines
...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not kriown_ its author. /V Of the two pieces, ' L'AllegrQ.'_amlJ II Penseroso,' I believe opinion is uniform;... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pągines
...ecclesiastical , pa.-tor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety;..."Lycidas" with pleasure had he not known its author. — JOUNSOK. Dr. Johnson observes, that "Lycidas" is filled with the heathen deities j and a long train... | |
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