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
| Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 страници
...copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Aeolus, 15 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... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1907 - 280 страници
...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...shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flock alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 страници
...and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoabus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily...exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost liis companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; how... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 страници
...and 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...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 страници
...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 страници
...flocks and herds, with such imagery as a college can supply. "Nothing can less display knowledge or exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has...what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell.1 Such an account will neither excite sympathy nor confer honour." 2 Johnson, in consequence of... | |
| Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 страници
...106). Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and lambs, feels no passion." Of Milton : " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene is Thrale's villa at Streatham. " Mrs Thrale disputed... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 страници
...and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and 2Eolus, 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... | |
| Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 страници
...Fair Infant." The impression created by Milton's modification is apparent in Dr. Johnson's summary of "how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell."16 As Johnson perceived, in Lycidas none of the classical gods mourns as they do in classical... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...flowers, appear the heathen $ deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ./Bolus, with a long train of 7* mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies....knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a i jic' shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, $ without any judge of... | |
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