...Mincius. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. ... Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Yet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to " Lycidas " those truths...

...there is little grief. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are_ long ago exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Tet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to " Lycidas " those truths...

...and such is everywhere the case. With his treatment of Milton everyone is familiar. In ' Lycidas ' " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." Its form is " easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers...

...Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral .... whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted,...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Yet, we ask, by what fatality does the critic come to utter in reference to "Lycidas" those truths...

...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better...

...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated ; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better...

...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? "The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers unpleasing. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." The sonnets Dr. Johnson naturally hated ; they are full of Puritanism. But he might have found better...

...will soon disencumber the public by tearing out the eyes of one another." — Employment of Authors. " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote...

...pieces, and prevail upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular." Of Lycidas he says: "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author."...

...upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular." Of Lycidas he says: " In this poem 1 there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author."...