 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...the right. " In this poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth : there is ho 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;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...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 Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...meant when a benefit was offered to her. Of the poem of ' Lycidas' Dr. Johnson thus speaks : — " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...harsh, its rhymes as uncertain, the numbers unpleasing, and its want of feeling, — " In ' Lycidas ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, with a yet grosser fault, — its approach to impiety... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...rough satyrs and 'fauns with cloven heel.' When there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...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... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1899 - 536 pages
...effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 pages
...satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. ' In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that §' Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Lycidas, of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer in a, sense, and nothing less relevant. "In this poem," he says, "there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted,... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1882 - 486 pages
...diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers nnpleasing. ... In this poem there is no natnre, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new.'' Regarding the Sonnets he says, " they deserve not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can... | |
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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... 
