 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...  Milton, with an Introduction and Notes - Σελίδα 45των Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 139 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Milton - 1870
...nature, 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...dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Harvey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 141 σελίδες
...nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. ..... When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | John Milton - 1874
...there is nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines : " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 141 σελίδες
...there is nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: "We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | John Milton - 1874
...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 always forces dissatis" faction on the mind. . . We know that they never drove " a-field, and that they had no flocks... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 28 σελίδες
...that §' Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Lycidas, of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted...image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? We drove a-field, and both together heard, What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening... | |
 | 1878
...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...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." In this sentence Johnson would no doubt have included the other poems of this class. But the true answer... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 σελίδες
...that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowlcy tells of Horvoy that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how ':nuch he must miss the... | |
 | 1880 - 541 σελίδες
...that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Oowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 168 σελίδες
...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,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author."... | |
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