 In this poem 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 exhausted ; and its inherent improbability...  The Christian Examiner - Page 761868Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...rough fafyn and fauns icith c/oven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pafroral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...of rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral; eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...rough satyrs and_/azflw 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 no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...rough tatyrs and fauns with eleven 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 no art, for there is nothmg new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral ; eafy, vulgar, and therefore... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...rough saty rs' and fauns with clovrn keel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem 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... | |
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