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

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

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

...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 inventions, 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 Phrebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without a judge of his skill in piping, and how one god asks another god, What is become of Lycidas ? and how...

...invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without a judge of his skill in piping, and how one god asks...tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. The poem has yet a grosser fault ; with these trifling...

...flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phœbus, Neptune and Mollis, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as...less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, f than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, ' without...

...Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, •with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a.college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge,...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...