 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...flocks alone, without any jndge 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 exoite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has tion ; t But, according to Dr. Warton, " ought not to have intended."— C. for the sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...and must now feed his flocks alone, without any iudge 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has o sooner /iped to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, dis sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...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 neither god can 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... | |
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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,... 
