Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, 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 - Σελίδα 150των Samuel Johnson - 1816Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 σελίδες
...now feed his flocks alone, without any 7 judge judge of his (kill in piping ; and how* bnft god alks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. Hfc who thus grieves will excite no fympathy j he who thus praifes will confer no honour. This poem... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 σελίδες
...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...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must ndw feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...copses, and flovrers, appear the heathen ueitic.-, ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and' ^Eolus, with a lony train of mythological imagery^ Such as- a College easily supplies. Nothing can k-ss display knowledge, or less exercise inventions, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 σελίδες
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jov3 and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery; such as...College easily supplies. Nothing can less display kndwledge, or less exercise inventions, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and mus't... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 σελίδες
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Pheebus, Neptune and -iColus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Noc 3 thing can less display knowledge, or lf.invennon, than to tell how a shepherd ha companion, and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 σελίδες
...Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers, fippcar the heathen deities : Jove and , Neptune and .Kohis, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed hig flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 σελίδες
...meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought, because it cannot be known when it is found. a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed...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 ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 σελίδες
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise iavention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 σελίδες
...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .(Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of bis skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 σελίδες
...it have been thus effectually answered. " Lycidas (says he) is filled with the heathen deities ; and a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. — But it is also such as even the court itself could now have easily supplied. The public diversions,... | |
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