 | 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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 - 944 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 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." And now let Prior come up for judgment. The scene is Thrale's villa at Streatham. " Mrs Thrale disputed... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 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... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 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. Lycidas 'This poem has yet a grosser fault. With... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 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... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 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,... | |
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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,... 
