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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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Our Great Writers, Or, Popular Chapters on Some Leading Authors

Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 páginas
...he who thus praises will confer no honour.' . . . and so on ; finishing up with this final blow : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas " with pleasure had he not known the author.' Those of us who remember Ruskin's description of a true book, and the example he gives,...
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Shaw's New History of English Literature: Together with a History of English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 508 páginas
...classics. This poem was fiercely condemned by Samuel Johnson. He declared that ".no man could havo fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author." But few who read the poem will accept such criticism. For force of imagination and exhaustless beauty...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volumen1

Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 738 páginas
...Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil." " To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." CRITICISMS. No man could have fancied that he read "Lycidas" with pleasure had he not known its author. — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. To say that " Lycidas " is beautiful is to say that a star or rose is beautiful....
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The Literary World, Volumen21

1890 - 528 páginas
...inserted. Professor JW Hales furnishes an excellent introduction. Dr. Johnson was able to write : " No man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author," and " For the best it can only be said that they [Milton's sonnets] are not bad." Well may Professor...
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The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library ..., Volumen8

Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 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." BUNYAN. In the first edition of the 'Penny Cyclopedia ' the writer who undertook the '...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 páginas
...equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, 30 of which, however, I believe the writer not to have...had he not known its author. • Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them, reads them with...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 páginas
...twice. So lioswell tells us. What Ursa Major said in print was to the same effect. lie declared that no man could have fancied that he read *' Lycidas*' with pleasure had he not known the author : "The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. . . . Its form...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 páginas
...twice. So Boswell tells us. What Ursa Major said in print was to the same effect. He declared that r. If they departed from the character assigned, they incurred forfeits, which w the author : " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. Its form is...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 páginas
...indecent, and at least approach #lo impiety, 30 of which, however, I believe the writer not to tjhave been conscious. *-, Such is the power of reputation...Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. ^^^ the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads...
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Johnson's Life of Addison, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 páginas
...resist ? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." 1 This surely is letting Ms judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after...
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