 ... 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. - Pàgina 141per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pàgines
...The shepherd is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards a superintendent of a Christian flock — an approach to impiety of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious No man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author.' It should... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 178 pàgines
...truths The shepherd is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards a superintendent of a Christian flock— an approach to impiety of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious No man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author.' It should... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1899 - 536 pàgines
...there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author.' Comus, he says, ' is a drama in the epic style, inelegantly splendid and tediously instructive.' The... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 pàgines
...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.' — Lives of the Poets. PROFESSOR MASSON'S ANALYSIS OF LYCIDAS. ' The song which opens... | |
 | 1877 - 626 pàgines
...sufficiently f exible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author ! ' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it ! A completely... | |
 | 1877 - 630 pàgines
...sufficiently flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton.* ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author ! ' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it ! A completely... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 pàgines
...Spenser and the Italian classics. Vlhis poem was fiercely condemned by Samuel Johnson. He declared that "no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author." But few who read the poem will accept such criticism. For force of imagination and exhaustless beauty... | |
 | 1878 - 520 pàgines
...century for their defective poetry and criticism of poetry. True, Johnson is capable of saying : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author ! " True, he is capable of maintaining " that the description of the temple in Congreve's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pàgines
...century for their defective poetry and criticism of poetry. True, Johnson is capable of saying : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author !" True, he is capable of maintaining " that the description of the temple in Congreve's... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 370 pàgines
...sufficiently flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author!' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it. A completely... | |
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