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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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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the ...

J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 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...
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Death in Milton's Poetry

Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 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...
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John Milton: 1732-1801

John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 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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Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature

William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 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." Notice how, even in formulating these general opinions, Johnson shares with society the details on...
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The Cambridge Companion to Milton

Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 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; and he who thus praises will confer no honour' (quoted in Patrides, 60-1). What Johnson is...
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 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. (1:2739) By 1779, when Johnson published this assessment...
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The Threshold of English Prose

Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 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. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these...
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Geschichte der Literaturkritik: Das späte 18. Jahrhundert, das Zeitalter der ...

René Wellek - 1978 - 768 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.« 20. ebenda, } (Lyttelton), 456: »It is sufficient...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 pages
...without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lyeidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ;v, he who thus praises will confer no honour. . %! ni..Vi ioY^»n This poem has, yet a grosser...
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