 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fidion there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there...exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they ftudied together, it is eafy to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...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 that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufling : whatever images it can fupply, are long ; ago exhaufted; and its inherent improbability... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...cloven heeL Where there is leifure for fi&ion there is little grief. Li this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there...whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted ; 6 haufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...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 difgufting: whatever images it can lupply, are long ago exhaufled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...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...therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are Jong ago exr haufted ; and its inherent improbability al- ' ways forces diflatisfaction on the mind.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...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...exhaufted ; and its inherent improbability always forces diffatisfacr.ion on the mind. When Cowley tells. of Hervey that they ftudied together, it is eafy to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. 4 In this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral,...difgufting; whatever images it can fupply are long age exhaufted; and its inherent improbability always forces diflatisfa&ion on the mind. WhenCowley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fidtion, there is little grief. In this poem there is nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral,...difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply are long ngo exhaulled; and its inherent improbability always forces diiTatisfaction on the mind. Cowley tells... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...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...on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they ftudied together, it is eafy to fuppofe how much he muft mifs the companion of his labours, and the... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted... | |
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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... 
