 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 than...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Pàgina 140per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1880 - 556 pàgines
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and JSolns, with a long train of mythological imagery such as...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 pàgines
...inherent 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 who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' . . . and so on ; finishing up with this final blow :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pàgines
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how ne1ther god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pàgines
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pàgines
...knowledge, or less exercise iriv \ntion, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and uimt now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in pip'nrj; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, anJtJwu^neither god can tell.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pàgines
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and JSolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, 30 and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pàgines
...admit, was a little hard upon Lycidas. ' In this poem, there is no nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pàgines
...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phrebus, Neptune and j-Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as...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 Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pàgines
...flocks, and copses, and flowers appear 20 the heathen deities — Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as...shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed 2 5 his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 pàgines
...was a little hard upon ' Lycidas.' ' In this poem, there is no nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;... | |
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