 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...there is nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines : " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 168 pages
...there is nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: "We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 178 pages
...nothing new. Its form is pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. ..... When Cowley tells Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose...how much he must miss the companion of his labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds...Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, Towards heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, Towards heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 pages
...and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the...tenderness can be excited by these lines ? We drove a-field, and both together heard, What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening * eyelids of the morn, We drove afield,* and both together heard What time the grey fly winds...Battening* our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering* wheel.... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1877 - 508 pages
...Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night; Oft till the stars that rose at evening bright, Towards heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...the mind. When Cowlcy tells of Horvoy that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how ':nuch he must miss the companion of his labours and the...image of tenderness can be excited by these lines ? — Wo drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn, Battening... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray -fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Uft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.... | |
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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... 
