 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 MASEFIELD - 1907
...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...image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? — We drove afield, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 144 σελίδες
...nothing new. Its form is that of ' a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever 30 1 images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its...of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries; jbut what image of tenderness can be excited by these \lines ?— 5 We drove afield. and both together... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910
...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. . . . This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 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;...suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labors and the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines?... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 σελίδες
...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;...suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labors and the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines?... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 σελίδες
...that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labors and the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines? We drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray fly Winds her sultry horn, Battening our... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 446 σελίδες
...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;...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Of Paradise Lost he writes at times very sympathetically : " Whatever be the faults of his diction,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 σελίδες
...for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a [50 pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted;...suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labors, and the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these [60... | |
 | A. S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970
...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;...image of tenderness can be excited by these lines! "We drove a field. . .dews of night." We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 319 σελίδες
...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;...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Johnson's insistence on both naturalness and novelty could make him grossly insensitive to certain... | |
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