 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...labours, and the partner of his difcoveries; but what image of tendernefs can •be excited by thefe lines ? We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her futtry horn, . Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...labours, and the partner of his difcoveries ; but what image of tendernefs can be excited by thefe lines ? We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefhdews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...labours, and the partner of his difcoveries ; but what image of tendernefs can be excited by thefe lines ! We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...labours) and the partner of his difcoveries; but what, image of tendernefs can be excited by thefe Jines! We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...his labours, and the partner of his difcoveries; but what image of tendernefs can be excited by thefe lines! We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...labours, and the partner of his difcoveries ; but what image of tendernefs can be excited by thefe lines ? We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of We We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the...of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; VOL. i. g but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? We drove afield, and both... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...suppose how much *™«Rniiss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; M what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines! . , We drove a field, and both together heard Whit time the gtey fly winds her sultry horn/ Battening oar flocks with the fresh dews of night. ft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...and the partner of his difcoveries ; but what image of tendernefs can \>e excited by thefe lines f We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability. always forces dissatisfaction on thx mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied...the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our Socks with the fresh .dews of night. 'We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks... | |
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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... 
