 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 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,...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.65 Edmund Waller fell into a similar error: He borrows too many of his sentiments and illustrations... | |
 | 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
...supplies. Nothing can )<# less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a i jic' shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who "*' " 293 thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 страници
...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 as well, the grief that is expressed in figures of cankered roses, frosted flowers,... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 страници
...Cambridge University? 'Nothing', he concludes, 'can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; and he who thus praises will confer no honour' (quoted in Patrides, 60-1). What Johnson is objecting... | |
 | Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 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...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. (1:2739) By 1779, when Johnson published this assessment in his Life of Milton, the conventions... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 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,...sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 страници
...no flocks to batten«. 19. ebenda: »Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion...excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor.« 20. ebenda, } (Lyttelton), 456: »It is sufficient blame to say that it is pastoral.« 21.... | |
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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,... 
