...and writer of philosophy; and therefore when his daughter dies he In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,111 and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley...

...cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. lu this poem there is nc nature, for there is nothing new : its form is that of a pastoral....disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long mgo exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forées dissatisfaction on the mind. ! When Cowley...

...harsh, its rhymes as uncertain, the numbers unpleasing, and its want of feeling, — " In ' Lycidas ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, with a yet grosser fault, — its approach to impiety by the indecent mingling of trifling fictions...

...they may delight us by the display of subordinate powers. And now I turn to the next sentence: — "Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting " — not disgusting, I conclude, because of its form, since in the " Rambler," Johnson says of the...

...one, that ' its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, and its numbers unpleasing;' and of another, 'in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth.' If, therefore, Milton wrote the shorter poems, he evidently did not write the longer one. Youth is...

...heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is " little grief. . . In this poem there is no nature, for there is " nothing new. Its form is that of a...exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatis" faction on the mind. . . We know that they never drove " a-field, and that they had no flocks...

...the effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author.'...

...tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. ' In this poem there is no nature, for there...no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that §' Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Lycidas, of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever...

...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 Oowley...

...Lycidas," wherein he says, " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. . . In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author."...