 Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the...  Biographical and Critical Miscellanies - Stran 257avtor: William Hickling Prescott - 1903 - 682 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 476 strani
...flexible, nor sufficiently receptive, to be a satisfying critic of a poet like Milton. ' Surely no nun could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author I' Terrible sentence for revealing the deficiencies of the critic who utters it A completely disinterested... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 strani
...supply are long ago exhausted, and its inherent 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." Cowper very truly says of this, that " in his review of ' Lycidas' Johnson has stamped some of the... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 strani
...the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author." Hazlitt says: " Of all Milton's smaller poems, Lycidas is the greatest favorite with me. . . . It is... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 strani
...impertinent, belong, on the other hand, to the class of elegiac poems suggested by devoted friendship. man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author ! " Here, indeed, as often happens in the youthful poems of Milton, notes of earlier poets are recalled,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 strani
...impertinent, belong, on the other hand, to the class of elegiac poems suggested by devoted friendship. man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known the author ! " Here, indeed, as often happens in the youthful poems of Milton, notes of earlier poets are recalled,... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 strani
...he who thus praises will confer no honour.' . . . and so on ; finishing up with this final blow : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas " with pleasure had he not known the author.' Those of us who remember Ruskin's description of a true book, and the example he gives, will smile... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 strani
...Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil." " To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." CRITICISMS. No man could have fancied that he read "Lycidas" with pleasure had he not known its author. — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. To say that " Lycidas " is beautiful is to say that a star or rose... | |
 | Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 strani
...supply are long ago exhausted, and its inherent 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." BUNYAN. In the first edition of the 'Penny Cyclopedia ' the writer who undertook the ' Life of Bunyan... | |
 | 1890 - 528 strani
...inserted. Professor JW Hales furnishes an excellent introduction. Dr. Johnson was able to write : " No man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author," and " For the best it can only be said that they [Milton's sonnets] are not bad." Well... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 strani
...twice. So Boswell tells us. What Ursa Major said in print was to the same effect. He declared that no man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas" with pleasure had he not known the author : " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral,... | |
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