 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894
...Mincius. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. ... Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Yet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to " Lycidas " those truths... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 365 σελίδες
...the point when he says that the pastoral form of poetry is "easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." This is strong criticism, but perfectly fair. Johnson was thinking more particularly of elegiac pastoral... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 362 σελίδες
...the point when he says that the pastoral form of poetry is "easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." This is strong criticism, but perfectly fair. Johnson was thinking more particularly of elegiac pastoral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894
...there is little grief. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are_ long ago exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Tet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to " Lycidas " those truths... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895
...Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Yet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to "Lycidas" those truths... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 879 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. . . . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote... | |
 | 1900
...that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces...image of tenderness can be excited by these lines? — We drove afield, and both together heanl What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn, Battening... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 209 σελίδες
...there__js 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 5 always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied together,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 216 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 Gowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905
...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...of his labours and the partner of his discoveries 5 ; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ! practice.' Ruskin : Rossetti : Pre-... | |
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