 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral-of a hundred lines may be endured : nd Osborne ; being duwn of life ; but will be for the most part thrown away, as jnen grow wise, and nations grow learned.... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - 240 pàgines
...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 myrtle bowers...away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned. INTRODUCTION. THE SHEPHERD AND THE PHILOSOPHER. REMOTE from cities lived a Swain, Unvex'd with all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pàgines
...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 myrtle bowers...away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned. GRANVILLE. OF GEOHGE GRANVILLH, or, as others write, Greenville, or Grenville, afterwards Lord Lansdownof... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pàgines
...never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured i breath And no dim cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; not a Around her silver thiouob five acts? Such scenes please barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pàgines
...long work. A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and gouts, und myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts?...part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow 'nnrned. GRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRANVILLE, or, as others write Greenville or Grenville, afterwards Lord... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pàgines
...will be probably shared by modern readers. " Who will hear of j sheep and goats and myrtle bowers aud purling rivulets through five acts ? Such scenes please...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pàgines
...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...away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned. GRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRINYILLE, or, as others write Greenville or Grenville, afterwards Lord Landsdown,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 pàgines
...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 myrtle bowers,...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 pàgines
...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 myrtle bowers...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 pàgines
...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 myrtle bowers...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.)... | |
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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,... 
