Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.

看这个问题的另一个角度：让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。

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Okay. Famously, Dr. Johnson couldn't bear this poem, Lycidas - Dr. Johnson, the greatest of all literary critics of the eighteenth century.

好的，众所周知，约翰逊博士受不了《利西达斯》这首诗,-约翰逊博士，18世纪最伟大的文学评论家。

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The difficulty of the poem lies to a great degree, I think, in something that Dr. Johnson had noted in his attack or in his criticism on Lycidas that I mentioned on Monday.

诗歌本身的难点很大程度上，在于约翰逊博士在他对利西达斯的,抨击中提到的一些点。

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