...copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phcebus, Neptune and JSolus, with a lorig train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily...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 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...Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise iavention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone,...

...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 of bis skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god...

...it have been thus effectually answered. " Lycidas (says he) is rilled with the heathen deities ; and a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. — But it is also such as even the court itself could now have easily supplied. The public diversions,...

...it have been thus effectually answered. " Lycidas (says he) is filled with the heathen deities ; and a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. — But it is also such as even the court itself could now have easily supplied. The public diversions,...

...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the Heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and JEolis, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...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...

...Reg- very highly. £.] Doctor Johnson observes, that Lycidas is filled with the heathen deities ; and a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. But it is such also, as even the Court itself could now have easily supplied. The public diversions,...

...Subordinate poets exercise no invention, when they tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping : but Milton dignifies and adorns these common artificial incidents with unexpected touches of picturesque...

...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 honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling...

...Jove juid Phosbus, Neptune and ./Bolus, with a long train of m JHIblogical imagery, such as a co lege easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge,...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 fictions...