 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell; He who thus grieves, will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises, will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most aweful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...piping.; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lyxrid-is, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy.-, he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...piping • and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. , This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sa* VOL.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.' This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour. likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian... | |
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Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas,... 
