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" Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas,... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 136
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, 30 and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. such as ought never to be polluted with such...
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Studies of a Biographer, Volume 4

Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge 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 who thus praises will confer no honour.' Perhaps a young reader would really learn more...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...must now feed 2 5 his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. ^o trifling fictions are mingled the most awful...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 194

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 676 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge 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 who thus praises will confer no honour.' Perhaps a young reader would really learn more...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 194

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge 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 who thus praises will confer no honour.' Perhaps a young reader would really learn more...
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1902 - 124 pages
...and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can 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...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how «^ne god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour 2. i How oft unweary'd have we spent the nights,...
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AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY

JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can 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...
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Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another 20 god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can 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...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can 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...
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