| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 страници
...What time the grey fly winds ner 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 representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never because... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield, 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,... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night." We know that they never drove afield, ! representation may be allegorical, the true so uncertain and remote, that sought because it cannot... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night." We know that they never drove afield, 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... | |
| Amy Cruse - 1919 - 666 страници
...sultry horn. Battening our 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 that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought,... | |
| Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 страници
...discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines! "We drove a field.. .dews of night." We know that they never drove a field, and that they...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... | |
| Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 страници
...sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night.' 3 We know that they never drove afield, 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... | |
| James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 страници
...Milton, Samuel Johnson had railed against the dubious sincerity of the pastoral trappings of Lycidas: "We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour." 11 To Tennyson... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines? [27-9J We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flock to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning... | |
| William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 страници
...inarguable passives, to join him in rejecting Milton's statement: "We know that they never drove afield, 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... | |
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