 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...TITYRUS found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong,Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...TITYRUS found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the nattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...TITYRUS found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong,. Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
 | 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 - 562 pages
...expostulation of a living poet, — ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil not where fancy leads the way r* Here therefore is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flatt'ring dreams prolong ? Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...TITYRUS found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy Bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where Fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...If Tityrutjound the golden age again, Must sleepy bards thejlattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth 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,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...the Golden Age again, Must sleepy Bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantnan Song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where Fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their... | |
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On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads... 
