| 1880 - 556 страници
...sultry horn, Battening onr flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield and had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and JSolns, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 страници
...What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. to* We know that they never drove a field, and that they...and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies.... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 174 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 20 INTRODUCTION. when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He... | |
| Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 страници
...in speaking of " Lycidas," " can be excited by these lines ? We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...sought, because it cannot be known when it is found." A small minority still agree with Johnson's want of appreciation of " Lycidas," which is deservedly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 страници
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to' batten ; and though it be allowed that the 10 representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 страници
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so 20 uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found. Among... | |
| 1900 - 674 страници
...horn, Battening onr 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...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phrebus, Neptune and j-Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 страници
...our flocks with the fresh dews of night." f ' We know that they never drove afield, and that they 15 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed...found. Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers appear 20 the heathen deities — Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 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...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .iSolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
| John Milton - 1902 - 124 страници
...improbability always forces dissatisfaction 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. 1 Johnson '$ bete noire seems to have been a sheep. "An intelligent reader", he says, in his Life of... | |
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