 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. 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;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. 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;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. 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;... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions." "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." The mixing of "sacred truths" was regarded as little short of sacrilege. (Ed. Hill, I, 163.) These... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 pages
...the high-water mark of poetic excellence. Of Lycidas he writes : " 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;... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 556 pages
...diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing; .... in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new; .... it is easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." In our own time Mark Pattison pronounces this same... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, : Directed, no mean recompense it brings To your behoof, if I that region lost, 982 All [50 pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted;... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1916 - 244 pages
...diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." 6. Explain the allusions in the following extracts : — (a) " Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing » Such... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1919 - 612 pages
...heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. " ' 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.' " Do you call that criticism ? " " Ah, but listen,"... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. 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... | |
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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... 
