Ambrose Philips, as I have said, had published certain pastorals in the same volume with Pope's.
The acquaintance with Walsh was due to Wycherley, who had submitted Pope's Pastorals to his recognized critical authority.
Following Dryden, he had turned some of Chaucer into modern English; and, adopting a fashion which had not as yet quite died of inanition, he had composed certain pastorals in the manner of Theocritus and Virgil.
The Pastorals have been seriously criticized; but they are, in truth, mere school-boy exercises; they represent nothing more than so many experiments in versification.
How could any man be angry with a writer of gentle pastorals and versified love-letters?
The man who could not publishPastorals without getting into quarrels, was hardly likely to become a professed satirist without giving offence.
The sole point worth notice in the Pastorals is the general sweetness of the versification.
It is in this way, probably, that his fine ballad of "Sir James the Ross," and some of his pastorals originated.
But this has absolutely no warrant outside the Pastorals themselves, and is both inconsistent with Acts and open to criticism intrinsically.
The Pastorals already make it apparent that even the Pauline churches are not exempt from the inevitable tendency of the age to fall back upon authority.
Marcion's exclusion of the three Pastorals had been forgotten.
And the Pastorals tend toward the un-Pauline doctrine soon to be formulated in the 'catholic' church: "I believe in the resurrection of the flesh.
Basse, himself, had published three pastoral elegies in 1602, and he was still writing pastorals half a century later.
The seventh exhibits another contest of the tuneful shepherds: and, surely, it is not without some reproach to his inventive power, that of ten pastorals Virgil has written two upon the same plan.
If we survey the ten pastorals in a general view, it will be found that Virgil can derive from them very little claim to the praise of an inventor.
With all my pains I do not think I ever managed to bring any of my pastorals to a satisfactory close.
They did not supplant thepastorals of Pope in my affections, and they were never the grand passion with me that Pope's poems had been.
The books bearing the names of James, Peter and Jude, together with the Pastorals (though these may contain fragments of genuine Pauline letters) and the Apocalypse, he regards as epistles.
Gay's pastorals completely achieved this object, but his ludicrous pictures of the English swains and their loves were found to be abundantly entertaining on their own account.
If I might advise you, Cubbin, I would have you always write Pastorals in either such a Language as this, entirely uniform and of a piece, or else to write in a strong polite Language.
And had we a Set of such Pastorals as these, I am satisfied they would take extreamly.
Or one complaining to the other, that his Flock has had some Mischance, or the like; which is as much as can be gather'd out of the Pastorals form'd after the ordinary Way.
I' faith, said Cubbin, I am nothing careful whether any Pastorals be cry'd up or not.
Let all judge of Allegorical Pastorals as they please, but in my Opinion, they are not consistent with the Simplicity of that Poem.
If any of my Countrymen therefore can take delight from reading the Pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil, or any of those who have imitated those two Ancients, I shall be ready to allow that there may be several sorts of Pastorals.
What Kind of Pastorals would please most Universally; and delight the greatest Number of Readers.
His pastorals are brilliant, but overladen with colour and sweet to insipidity.
The Pastorals do not contradict, but supplement, the earlier letters.
The piece, which was written some ten years before the author's death in 1555, leads us off into one of the numerous by-paths into which the pastorals of this period were for ever wandering.
Into the post-restoration pastorals it is no part of my present scheme to enter.
The editio princeps of the pastoralsappeared in the form of a beautifully printed folio at Cologne in 1473, ninety-nine years after the poet's death.
The Shepherds' Holiday is the most typical, as it is on the whole the most successful, of those pastorals which exhibit the blending of the Arcadian and courtly elements.
Dramatic prologues occur in some of the later Italian pastorals (see p.
Passing over the Latin eclogues of Buchanan and John Barclay, as belonging properly to the sphere of humanistic rather than of English letters, we come to the pretty thoroughly Latinized pastorals of Alexander Barclay and Barnabe Googe.
The 'nymphs' who love the shepherds in the renaissance pastorals are nothing but shepherdesses.
The Three Masterpieces I Among English pastorals there are two plays, and two only, that can be said to stand in the front rank of the romantic drama as a whole.
Another of these miniature pastorals is preserved in a British Museum manuscript, where it bears the title of The Converted Robber.
They are conventional pastorals on the Italian model, futile in plot and commonplace in style.
It is impossible to reckon the number of the pastorals and Venus-pieces that his master-hand painted and loved to paint, during these the supreme years of his genius.
It was of these pastorals a waggish critic complained that the shepherds and shepherdesses look as if they must soon be off to the Opera again.
The critics were becoming more and more censorious; and one of them hits true with the comment that in his pastorals his shepherdesses look as if they had stepped over from the Opera and would soon be off again thereto.
The latest Pastorals of Gibson are not only against Woolston, but other deists also, such as Tindal.
The Pastorals were his only work, antecedent to the Essay on Criticism, which had a nominal originality, and three of these Pastorals were written before he and Walsh were acquainted.
Of the end of Pastorals tis not so easy to give an account: For as to the end of Poetry in General: The Enemies of Poets run out into a large common place, and loudly tell us that Poetry is frivolous and unprofitable.
Therefore, in short, let him that writes Pastoralsthink brevity, if it doth not obscure his sense, to be the greatest grace which he can attain.
Happiest, at any rate, is the reader of Vergil's pastorals who can take an unannotated pocket edition to his vacation retreat, forgetting what every inquisitive Donatus has conjectured about the possible hidden meanings that lie in them.
To the biographer, however, the passage praising Messalla's Greek pastorals is the most interesting for it reveals clearly how Vergil came to make the momentous decision of writing pastorals.
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