 If we search the writings of Virgil for the true definition of a pastoral, it will be found a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life.  The Rambler - الصفحة 209بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1809عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...recompense the want of novelty by exactness ; that taking Theocritus for his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and, that having...life. Whatsoever, therefore, may, according to the «ommon course of things, happen in the country, may afford a subject for a pastoral poet. In this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...lament, but a cruel mistress^ or a bad harvest. If we search the writings of Virgil, for the trite definition of a pastoral, it will be found, " A; poem in which action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life." Ibid. p. 224. Every other power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...recompense the want of novelty by exactness; that, taking Theocritus for his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and that having so...pastoral, it will be found a poem in which any action or pan ion is represented by its effects upon a country life. Whatsoever therefore may, according to the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...great a rival, he must have proceeded with uncommon caution. It" we search the writings of Virgil, fpr the true definition of a pastoral, it will be found...poem in which any action or passion is represented l>y its effects •upon a country life. Whatsoever, (herefore, may, according to the common course... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...original, he found pastoral far advanced toward! perfection, and that having so great a rival, he must bare proceeded with uncommon caution. If we search the writings of Virgil, for the truev definition of a pastoral, it will be found a poem in which any action or passion is represented... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...recompense the want of novelty by exactness ; that taking Theocritus for his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and that having so...true definition of a pastoral, it will be found a fioem in •which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life. Whatsoever... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...want of noTelty by exactness ; that, taking Theocritus for VOL. I. Z his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and that having so...true definition of a pastoral, it will be found a fioem in which any action or fiaasion is reflresentcd by its effects ufion a country life. Whatsoever,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...recompense the want of novelty by exactness ; that taking Theocritus for his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and that having so...true definition of a pastoral, it will be found a fioem in which any action or fiassion is refiresented by its effects vtjion a country life. Whatsoever... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...if we admit the definition of a pastoral, given us by an author of the first rank,* who calls it " A poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon country life." It is of little importance to inquire on what occasion this poem was written. The spirit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...recompense the want of novelty by exactness ; that taking Theocritus for his original, he found pastoral far advanced towards perfection, and that having so...poem in which any action or passion is represented by tis e£fectsjtgonji [•countnfjife. Whatsoever therefore may, according to the common course of things,... | |
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