 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 страници
...fiction, there is little grief. ID this poem there is uo nature, for there is no truth ; there is uo art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of...that they studied together, it is easy to suppose bow much be must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 страници
...rough satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. P@, I ts form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 страници
...leisure for fiction there is little grief. In thia poem there ia no nature, for there is no (rath; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form...dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Herircy, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of Ins... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 страници
...the right. " In this poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth : there is ho art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." ....." Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 страници
...meant when a benefit was offered to her. Of the poem of ' Lycidas' Dr. Johnson thus speaks : — " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces distraction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...and writer of philosophy; and therefore when his daughter dies he In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,111 and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 страници
...cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. lu this poem there is nc nature, for there is nothing new : its form is that of a pastoral....disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long mgo exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forées dissatisfaction on the mind. ! When Cowley... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 страници
...harsh, its rhymes as uncertain, the numbers unpleasing, and its want of feeling, — " In ' Lycidas ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, with a yet grosser fault, — its approach to impiety by the indecent mingling of trifling fictions... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 страници
...they may delight us by the display of subordinate powers. And now I turn to the next sentence: — "Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting " — not disgusting, I conclude, because of its form, since in the " Rambler," Johnson says of the... | |
 | 1868 - 402 страници
...one, that ' its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, and its numbers unpleasing;' and of another, 'in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth.' If, therefore, Milton wrote the shorter poems, he evidently did not write the longer one. Youth is... | |
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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... 
