 | 1880 - 556 頁
...sultry horn, Battening onr flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield and had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and JSolns, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 頁
...What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. to* We know that they never drove a field, and that they...and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 174 頁
...labours; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines: " We drove afield, &c."? Though the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning...that it is never sought, because it cannot be known 20 INTRODUCTION. when it is found. Among the flocks, &c., appear the heathen deities, Jove, &c. He... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 頁
...in speaking of " Lycidas," " can be excited by these lines ? We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...sought, because it cannot be known when it is found." A small minority still agree with Johnson's want of appreciation of " Lycidas," which is deservedly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 頁
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to' batten ; and though it be allowed that the 10 representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 頁
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so 20 uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found. Among... | |
 | 1900 - 674 頁
...horn, Battening onr flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field and had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phrebus, Neptune and j-Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 頁
...our flocks with the fresh dews of night." f ' We know that they never drove afield, and that they 15 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed...found. Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers appear 20 the heathen deities — Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 頁
...horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a-field and had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed...and flowers appear the heathen deities : Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and .iSolus, with a long train of mythological imagery such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 頁
...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. . . . We know that they never drove a-field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...sought because it cannot be known when it is found. 1 Johnson '$ bete noire seems to have been a sheep. "An intelligent reader", he says, in his Life of... | |
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We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it... 
