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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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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 páginas
...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas " with 10 pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, " L' Allegro " and " II Penseroso," I...
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Johnson's Life of Swift, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 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 his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after...
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Johnson's Life of Dryden, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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." ' This surely is letting his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after...
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John Milton's L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - 1895 - 238 páginas
...regard to the merits of " Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hal him wrote on the other hand: "It has been said, I think very...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 páginas
...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 ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author." He acknowledges that " L'Allegro " and " II Penseroso " are " noble efforts of imagination "; and that,...
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Frames of Mind

Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1899 - 304 páginas
...satyrs' and 'fauns with cloven heel.' When there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known its author." This passage positively 100 bristles with blunders as Drury Lane (in the advertisements) with exits....
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John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works

William Peterfield Trent - 1899 - 308 páginas
...regard to the merits of "Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hallam wrote on the other hand : " It has been said, I think very...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 páginas
...ecclesiastical 5 pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly ac10 quired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied...
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1902 - 124 páginas
...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful1; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...I believe the writer not to have been conscious." iii. TEXT, EDITIONS, &c. (A) The original draft of the Lycidas in Milton's handwriting is among the...
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Biographical and Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott - 1903 - 720 páginas
...the critic who can say of the most exquisite effusion of Doric minstrelsy that our language boasts, "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure, had he not known the author;" and of " Paradise Lost" itself, that "its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? Could...
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