 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,...  Studies of a Biographer - Page 90by Leslie Stephen - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...Neptune and JSolus, with a lorig train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...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...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise iavention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion,...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...Neptune and .(Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of bis skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 - 1824 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...Neptune and ./Bolus, with a long train of m JHIblogical imagery, such as a co lege easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...Phoebus, Neptune and jKolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any jndge of his' skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how... | |
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