 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 pages
...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 who thus praises will confer no honor. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 280 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.1 Such an account will neither excite sympathy nor confer honour." 2 Johnson, in consequence of... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 368 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." " Two Ramblers (Nos. 42 and 46) are devoted to... | |
 | A. S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970
...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. Lycidas 'This poem has yet a grosser fault. With... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874
...has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone ; how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves can excite no sympathy, he who thus praises will confer no honour." Of course every tyro in criticism... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1978 - 215 pages
..."Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell . . . how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell" (in Thorpe, p. 67). Yet until the structure of the poem has been better understood in recent times,... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark - 1994 - 270 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.65 Edmund Waller fell into a similar error: He... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 183 pages
...impression created by Milton's modification is apparent in Dr. Johnson's summary of "how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell."16 As Johnson perceived, in Lycidas none of the classical gods mourns as they do in classical... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 452 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 "*' " 293 thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem... | |
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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,... 
