... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of... Milton, with an Introduction and Notes - Страница 52по Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 139 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Thomas Marc Parrott - 1904 - 330 страници
...every line he wrote. In one of his outbursts of dogmatic criticism Johnson says, most unjustly, that no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author. It would be far less unjust, and probably a close approximation to the truth, to say that... | |
| 1906 - 856 страници
...Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have...that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, "L'Allegro" and "H Penseroso," I believe, opinion is uniform; every... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 страници
...a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such 25 as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend...pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, ' L'Allegro' and ' II Penseroso,' I .^ believe, opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads... | |
| JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 страници
...equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have...that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, "L1 Allegro" and "II Penseroso," I believe, opinion is uniform ; every... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1920 - 282 страници
..."in a sort of obscurity, the private enjoyment of a few curious readers." And Dr. Johnson exclaims : "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure, had he not known its author." There can be little doubt that nowadays Milton's juvenilia are more read than "Paradise Lost," and... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 страници
...skill in dandling the Kid." On Lycidas his censures are severe, and well enforced ; he is of opinion no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. L'Allegro and II Penseroso are of different estimation. These he acknowledges to be two noble efforts... | |
| 1878 - 862 страници
...century for their defective poetry and criticism of poetry. True, Johnson is capable of saying : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author ! " True, he is capable of maintaining " that the description of the temple in Congreve's... | |
| Brontë Society - 1926 - 910 страници
...and therefore disgusting : . . . and its inherent improbability always forces dis-satisfaction .... surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known its author." This critic is not a half-educated reviewer but the great Dr. Johnson in his " Life of Milton." The... | |
| Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 страници
...Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have...Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author.' Dr Johnson's blunt censure of Lycidas, ' the first critique of the poem by a major English literary... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have...pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso", I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them... | |
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