 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
 | John Scott Clark - English prose literature - 1905 - 924 pages
...disencumber the public by tearing out the eyes of one another. 1 '—Employment of Authors. " 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. . . . It is not... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 480 pages
...upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular.” Of Lycidas he says: “In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. Surely no man could have fancied that he read ‘Lycidas' with pleasure, had he not known its author.”... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 854 pages
...upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular." Of Lycidas he says: " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author."... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Criticism - 1899 - 384 pages
...which he calls "trifles," that "if they differ from others they differ for the worse"; that in Lycidas" there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new "; that " one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell" ; that it... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Criticism - 1899 - 378 pages
...he calls " trifles," that " if they differ from others they differ for the worse"; that in Lycidas " there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new "; that " one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell"; that it is... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer in a sense, and nothing less relevant. " In this poem," he says, " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Criticism - 1900 - 384 pages
...he calls " trifles," that " if they differ from others they differ for the worse"; that in Lycidas " there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new "; that " one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and neither god can tell"; that it is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1897 - 282 pages
...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated ; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1901 - 214 pages
...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer ir a sense, and nothing less relevant. " In this poem," he says, " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1901 - 806 pages
...In this poem there is no nature, 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 exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . This poem... | |
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