...to write. Johnson's criticism is more to the point when he says that the pastoral form of poetry is "easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." This is strong...

...flattery." Or this, about Lycidas ? " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, the numbers nnpleasing. 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 lie 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...

...and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is...disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells...

...inappropriate topics. Nothing can be truer in ;i sense, and nothing less relevant. " In this poem," he says, " there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are easily exhausted, and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley...

...and such is everywhere the case. AVith 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." Ita form is " easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain,...

...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 ; there...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . It is not...

...disencumber the public by tearing out the eyes of one another. 1 '—Employmint of Authors. " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . It is not...