 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night." We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...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.... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night.' We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...sought, because it cannot be known when it is found." This may be good criticism, but it* is very bad logic. When a meaning is never sought, and consequently... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our nocks with the fresh dews of night. Wo know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is . PO uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it I is found. Among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...never drove a field, and they (had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that theTepresentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain...sought, because it cannot be known when it is found. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and, though...allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and XI remote that it is never sought, because it cannot be known when it is found. ' Among the flocks,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 страници
...improbability always forces dissatis" faction on the mind. . . We know that they never drove " a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and, though...sought, " because it cannot be known when it is found. . . Surely no " man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had " he not known its author."... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 страници
...labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: "We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning...that it is never sought, because it cannot be known j when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He who thus grieves... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 178 страници
...labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning...that it is never sought, because it cannot be known ca when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He who thus grieves... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. ' We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and yEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 216 страници
...horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field and had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed...the heathen deities : Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and uEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less... | |
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We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it... 
