 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...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2821811Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...Cesar's bounteous reign If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes ; but peasants now Resign their pipes, and plod behind the plough;... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Most sleepy bards the nattering dream to enlarge upon, a heart To feel, and courage to...mind, content In the low vale of life, that early fe : They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes, and plod behind the plough... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Meehanie eehees must think of her onee more, Hew in the grave she lies ; And, with his hard, rough hand, faney, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Beeause the Muses never knew their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 pages
...Ccesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? " Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminished. I must, however, observe, that... | |
 | 1859 - 546 pages
...reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature...widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the Tray ? The question has often been asked, and never, we think, satisfactorily answered, why the natural... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 608 pages
...Catsar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the fluttering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From...stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? *.***** No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy vales can boast ;... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...Csesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes ; but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough.... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way f Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never "knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes ; but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 528 pages
...Qesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From...happy swains, Because the muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes : but peasants now Resign their pipes, and plod behind the plough... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 pages
...Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the nattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...happy swains, Because the muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes : but peasants now Resign their pipes, and plod behind the plough... | |
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