 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 страници
...such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or .less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1893 - 546 страници
...emotion underlay these verses, it must be submitted that, in the words of Samuel Johnson about "Lycidas," "he who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour." This conviction will be enforced when we reflect that the thought upon which the madrigal above translated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 страници
...knowledge, or less exercise iriv \ntion, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and uimt now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in pip'nrj; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, anJtJwu^neither god can tell.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 страници
...such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, 30 and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 страници
...nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...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 ;... | |
 | 1900 - 674 страници
...imagery such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...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, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 страници
...such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed 2 5 his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 664 страници
...nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...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 ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 страници
...nature, for there is no truth. . . . Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...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 ;... | |
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Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas,... 
