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The place pleased him so well that he staid until the very pegs of his tent took root and grew up into a grove of trees around his pavilion." The guides were a little restless under the idle regime of our lazy camp, and urged us to set out upon some adventure. Ferdinand was like the uncouth swain in Lycidas. Sitting upon the bundles of camp equipage on the shore, and crying,
Life seems to accost him with the glance of the goatherd Lycidas, 'and still he smiled as he spoke, with laughing eyes, and laughter dwelling on his lips. In Cos, Theocritus found friendship, and met Myrto, 'the girl he loved as dearly as goats love the spring. Here he could express, without any afterthought, an enthusiastic adoration for the disinterested joys, the enchanted moments of human existence.
And Lycidas was probably the most perfect piece of pure literature in existence; because every word and phrase and line were sonorous, ringing and echoing with music. "Literature," he re-enunciated in his mind, "is the sensuous art of causing exquisite impressions by means of words."
Fair voyaging betide him, if he saves Lycidas from the fire of Aphrodite, for hot is the love that consumes me. The halcyons will lull the waves, and lull the deep, and the south wind, and the east, that stirs the sea-weeds on the farthest shores, the halcyons that are dearest to the green-haired mermaids, of all the birds that take their prey from the salt sea.
Here lay hidden the secret of the sensuous art of literature; it was the secret of suggestion, the art of causing delicious sensation by the use of words. In a way, therefore, literature was independent of thought; the mere English listener, if he had an ear attuned, could recognize the beauty of a splendid Latin phrase. Here was the explanation of the magic of Lycidas.
Shelley himself knew what it was to suffer from unkind criticisms, and so he understood the feelings of another poet. But although Keats did suffer something from neglect and cruelty, he died of consumption, not of a broken heart. Adonais ranks with Lycidas as one of the most beautiful elegies in our language.
The most important work of Milton is Paradise Lost; his best work is Lycidas. There are other places in which Shaw's argument is more fascinating or his wit more startling than in Man and Superman; there are other plays that he has made more brilliant. But I am sure that there is no other play that he wished to make more brilliant.
Thus far we have come through the winter, on this bleak and blasty shore of the Irish Sea, where, perhaps, the drowned body of Milton's friend Lycidas might have been washed ashore more than two centuries ago. This would not be very likely, however, so wide a tract of sands, never deeply covered by the tide, intervening betwixt us and the sea.
"But Hadassah always said that the chief interest of Bethlehem lies in the future rather than in the past. It is here," Zarah reverentially lowered her voice as she went on "it is here that Messiah the Prince shall be born, as has been revealed to us by a prophet." "One would scarcely deem this village to be a place likely to be so honoured," observed Lycidas.
In Marlowe's 'Passionate Shepherd to his Love, of which England's Helicon supplies one of three texts , we come to what is, with the possible exception of Lycidas alone, the most subtly modulated specimen of pastoral verse in English.
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