 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sivua
...Writing of Lycidds, which is now considered one of the finest elegiac poems in the language, he says: "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral elegy, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted,... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 sivua
...his emphatic and severe condemnation of the poetry of ' Lycidas.' ' In this poem,' says Johnson, ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy and vulgar and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its... | |
 | 1884 - 610 sivua
...together in our chivalry. (d) Dost thou thirst, base Trojan, To have me fold up Parca's fatal web? (e) In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. 3. Give some account of the works usually published under the name of Caedmon. 4. Give some account... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1885 - 346 sivua
...' ; and of Lycidas, that its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing, that ' in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new,' that it is ' easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting,' — after which he goes through the different... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 sivua
...of " Lycidas," very few have been daring enougli to run the risk of general opprobrium by saying, '' In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." In 1784 Johnson died at his house in Bolt Court, full of years and full of honours. Looking over his... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 82 sivua
...one that ' its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, and its numbers unpleasing'; and of another, ' In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth.' If, therefore, Milton wrote the shorter poems, he evidently did not write the longer one. Youth is... | |
 | 1887 - 722 sivua
...rejoice over. Perhaps Johnson gave his own measure as a judge of genius, when he said, of Lycidas, ' In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...pastoral — easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting.' How could a man speak, with authority, on genius in literature who declared and believed that Milton's... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 222 sivua
...that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces...that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how -oauch he must miss the companion of his labours and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image... | |
 | Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 sivua
...'Lycidas,' wherein he says, " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author."... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 566 sivua
...Where there is leisure " for fiction, there is little grief. ... In this poem there is no " nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...improbability always forces " dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . We know that they never drove " a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and, though... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there / is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability... 
