...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities: Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions...

...theflocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities: Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions...

...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities: Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions...

...the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither...

...tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge [80 of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he...

...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Aeolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. . . . He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour." Not...

...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Aeolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling...

...flocks and herds, with such imagery as a college can supply. "Nothing can less display knowledge or exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has...what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell.1 Such an account will neither excite sympathy nor confer honour." 2 Johnson, in consequence of...

...106). Neaera or Delia as a shepherdess, and talks of goats and lambs, feels no passion." Of Milton : " Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise...become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene is Thrale's villa at Streatham. " Mrs Thrale disputed...

...that "we know they [Milton and Edward King] never drove afield, and they had no flocks to batten." 1§ "Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honor." " Two Ramblers (Nos. 42 and 46) are devoted to a satire...