 There is something in the poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility, that we can never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Stran 212avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1816Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 strani
...work. A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured : but who will hear of sheep and goats, and rrmtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such...wise, and nations grow learned. GRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRINYILLE, or, as others write Greenville or Grenville, afterwards Lord Landsdown, of Bideford in the... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 strani
...that we can never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and...away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned. FABLES. VOL. I. INTRODUCTION. THE SHEPHERD AND THE PHILOSOPHER. REMOTE from cities liv'da Swain, Unvex'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 strani
...we can never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and...thrown away, as men grow wise and nations grow learned. JAMES SOMERVILLE.* (1692-1742.) Of Mr. Somerville's life I am not able to say any thing that can satisfy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 strani
...we can never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and...part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.41 * Molly Mogg, one of Gay's celebrities, died in 1766. (See 'Gent.'s Mng.' for 1766, p. 151.)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 strani
...we^can never support its represeiltation~tTiroIIg1r'a^Tong wofE^ A Pastoral of an hundred iiimu mjyij'e endured; But who will hear of sheep and goats, and...part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.4' 40 Molly Mogg, one of Gay's celebrities, died in 1766. (See 'Gent.'s Mag.' for 1766, p.... | |
 | 1866 - 300 strani
...that we can never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and...away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned. FABLES. INTRODUCTION. THE SHEPHERD AND THE PHILOSOPHER REMOTE from cities UVd a Swain, Unvex'd with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 strani
...•• Molly More, on* of G»y'« celebrltlri, died In 1TM. (Sea ' Oent.'i M»g.' for 1TS6, p. 151.) who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through fire acts ? Sucli scenes please barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 strani
...hearty contempt for sham pastorals and sham love-poetry will be probably shared by modern readers. " Who will hear of sheep and goats and myrtle bowers...thrown away as men grow wise and nations grow learned." But elsewhere he blunders into terrible misapprehensions. Where he errs by simply repeating the accepted... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 strani
...hearty contempt for sham pastorals and sham love-poetry will be probably shared by modern readers. " Who will hear of sheep and goats and myrtle bowers...thrown away as men grow wise and nations grow learned." But elsewhere he blunders into terrible misapprehensions. Where he errs by simply repeating the accepted... | |
 | 1874 - 844 strani
...hearty contempt for sham pastorals and sham love-poetry will be probably shared by modern readers. " Who will hear of sheep and goats and myrtle bowers...thrown away as men grow wise and nations grow learned." But elsewhere he blunders into terrible misapprehensions. Where he errs by simply repeating the accepted... | |
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