 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...again, " Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, " Mcc/ianick echoes of the Mantuan song ? j " From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, " Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the uaj/ ?" Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminished. I must, however, observe,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards tbe flattering dream prolong, Mecbanick ecboes of the Mantuan song ? " From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, " Wbere Virgil, not where Faney, leads tbe -may ?" lesby, whose reading, and knowledge of life, and... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flatt'ring dreams prolong ? Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains.— Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? By such examples taught,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pages
...worthies ; and we may well use the expostulation of a living poet, — ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song,...stray, Where Virgil not where fancy leads the way?' Here therefore is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken up and rendered... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...in C<csui's bounteous reign, If Tityrutjound the golden age again, Must sleepy bards thejlattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song...and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not vihere Fancy, leads the way ?n " The Village " has been reprinted in Mr Davenport's elegant miscellany,... | |
 | 1819 - 544 pages
...accordingly be classed among the bards whom Crabbe has so happily described, as those who The flattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From truth and nature, still content to stray, Where Virgil not, where fancy leads the way. Yet his taste is correct, his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 pages
...in CESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITVRUS found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy Bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan Song?...Where VIRGIL, not where Fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thug the Muses sing of happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their Peasants'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...If Tityrus found the golden age again, ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, ' Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song ? ' From truth and nature shall we widely stray, On Sunday, March 30, I found him at home in the evening, and had the pleasure to meet with Dr. Brocklesby,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy lards the fluttering dream prolong, Mechanick echocs of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Faney, leads the way ?" Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminished. I must, however,... | |
 | 1840 - 614 pages
...As Crabbe, who may be said to have looked into the inside of rural life, has truly said, " Yes, they (the Muses) sing of happy swains. Because the Muses never knew their pains." Nevertheless, as in all situations in life, much depends on the habits of the occupiers, as to the... | |
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Yet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays fond Corydons complain, And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden... 
