Among the flocks and 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. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Страница 145по Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 страници
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping : but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 116 страници
...copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, -with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily...his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves, will excite no sympathy... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 374 страници
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention when they tell how a shepherd has lost a companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 678 страници
...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping: imt MiUnn dignififiA,and adorns ihese. common -artificial incidents with unexpected ^^ toa^^J^mct^e84ULft.,b£auty,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 страници
...and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phœbns, Neptune and /Moins, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily...his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 страници
...copses and flowers appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .¿Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily...his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus... | |
| 1874 - 844 страници
...and 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...invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his compan-. ion, and must now feed his flocks alone ; how one god asks another god what has become of... | |
| 1880 - 556 страници
...and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and JSolns, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell. He who thus grieves... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 страници
...copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily...asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how ne1ther god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 страници
...copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily...his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no... | |
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