 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
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 pages
...and we may well use the expostulation of a living poet, — " Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From...stray, Where Virgil not where fancy leads the way ?" VOL. XVII. V Here, therefore, is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...lines that it contains.1 The collection of poems published in 1 Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? 1807 contained 'The Parish Register,' 'The Hall of Justice,' and ' Sir Eustace Grey.' The first of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...lines that it contains.1 The collection of poems published in 1 Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall wo widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? 1807 contained 'The Parish Register,'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echos of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall...stray. Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way." Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undimmished. I must, however, observe, that the... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 pages
...startling, and have a most comical effect. For example : — 1 " Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way?" " Nor angler we on our wide stream descry, But one poor dredger, where his oysters lie : He, cold and... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 pages
...again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Troth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? I Yetf, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, I Becanse the Muses never knew their painsi I They boast... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...Ctesar'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 ? ******* No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast ;... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...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...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? ******* No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast ; Where... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...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...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? ******* No; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...Coesar'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 the... | |
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