...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas " with 10 pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, " L' Allegro " and " II Penseroso," I...

...resist? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty, when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author." 1 This surely is letting his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after...

...resist ? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty, when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." ' This surely is letting his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after...

...regard to the merits of " Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hal him wrote on the other hand: "It has been said, I think very...

...for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author." He acknowledges that " L'Allegro " and " II Penseroso " are " noble efforts of imagination "; and that,...

...satyrs' and 'fauns with cloven heel.' When there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known its author." This passage positively 100 bristles with blunders as Drury Lane (in the advertisements) with exits....

...regard to the merits of "Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hallam wrote on the other hand : " It has been said, I think very...

...ecclesiastical 5 pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly ac10 quired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied...

...ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful1; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety,...I believe the writer not to have been conscious." iii. TEXT, EDITIONS, &c. (A) The original draft of the Lycidas in Milton's handwriting is among the...

...the critic who can say of the most exquisite effusion of Doric minstrelsy that our language boasts, "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure, had he not known the author;" and of " Paradise Lost" itself, that "its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure"? Could...