 there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply are long ago  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6841927Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 534 pages
...and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 556 pages
...and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 528 pages
...grief. ,.Ift-tbifr.poom there is nu Mature, for tberew-no truth ; ^erg J8 gQ artj fm *fr tw 1 g oothiog new. Its form is that of a pastoral: easy, vulgar,...disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...fauns with cloven heel*' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. t . ,. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...disgusting, whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbahility always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...excellenci of suavity and softness; he was a lion that ha< no skill in dangling the kid. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images il can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...and "fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem P E o ] / F د % 6 6 ... E < H < F 8 6 ; cas v, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. In thia poem there is no nature, for there is DO truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, «nd therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and Us inherent improbability... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 268 pages
...altogether in the right. " In this poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth:,there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that...disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." .... " Nothing... | |
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