 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 страници
...and such is everywhere the case. With his treatment of Milton everyone is familiar. In ' Lycidas ' " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." Its form is " easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 страници
...Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Yet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to "Lycidas" those truths... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 страници
...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? "The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated ; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 страници
...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated ; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 страници
...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 страници
...will soon disencumber the public by tearing out the eyes of one another." — Employment of Authors. " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 страници
...pieces, and prevail upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular." Of Lycidas he says: "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author."... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 страници
...upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular." Of Lycidas he says: " In this poem 1 there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author."... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 страници
...charm already felt. Johnson, as even Professor Raleigh has to admit, was a little hard upon Lycidas. ' In this poem, there is no nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has... | |
 | 1900 - 674 страници
...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer in a sense, and nothing less relevant. " In this poem," he says, " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
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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... 
