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" ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Página 141
por Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 368 páginas
...sufficiently flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author !' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it. A completely...
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Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 352 páginas
...century for their defective poetry and criticism of poetry. True, Johnson is capable of saying : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known the author ! ' True, he is capable of maintaining that 'the description of the temple in Congreve's...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 372 páginas
...sufficiently flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author 1 ' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it. A completely...
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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Bible Christians - 1880 - 598 páginas
...in Virgil's Ninth Eclogue. This poem Dr. Johnson whistles down the wind with infinite unconcern. " Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure,' had he not known the author." Mr. A. Trollope, hazards an opinion hardly less extraordinary : " I am not sure that all...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen248

1880 - 790 páginas
...uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing ;" and he concludes a miserably prosaic critique with the words, " No man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." " ' Comus ' is a Drama in the epic style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive."...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 476 páginas
...flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no nun could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author I' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it A completely...
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Curiosities of Criticism

Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 páginas
...supply are long ago exhausted, and its inherent 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." Cowper very truly says of this, that " in his review of ' Lycidas' Johnson has stamped...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetry

James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 páginas
...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskillful; but here they are indecent, and, at least, approach to...that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author." Hazlitt says: " Of all Milton's smaller poems, Lycidas is the greatest favorite with me....
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 424 páginas
...impertinent, belong, on the other hand, to the class of elegiac poems suggested by devoted friendship. man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author ! " Here, indeed, as often happens in the youthful poems of Milton, notes of earlier poets...
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers

John Dennis - 1883 - 426 páginas
...impertinent, belong, on the other hand, to the class of elegiac poems suggested by devoted friendship. man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author ! " Here, indeed, as often happens in the youthful poems of Milton, notes of earlier poets...
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