 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculatjve poffibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral...acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of lite-r rature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for the moft part thrown away, as men... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...that we can never fupport port its reprefentation through a k>ng work. A Paftoral of an hundred Hnes may be endured ; but who will hear of fheep and goats,...and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five a&s? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 472 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculative poffibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral...hundred lines may be endured; but who will hear of Iheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculative poffibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral...and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five afts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculative poflibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred lines may he endured ; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculative poffibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral...and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five adrs ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn ot literature, and children in the dawn or life; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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, and myrtle bowers, and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such scenes please barbarians... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftpral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers...fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and chil-r dren in the dawn of life ; but will be for the moft part thrown away, as men grpw wife, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...poetical Arcadia fo remote from known reality and fpeculative poffibility, that we can never fupport its reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but 5 who who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five ails ?... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...speculative possibility, that we can nerer 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, and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such scenes please barbarians... | |
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A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers, and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such scenes please Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for... 
