 THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 361903Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...achievements, and despair of new. THE REALITY OF HUMBLE LIFE GEORGE CRABBE [From T^e Village, 1783] win Almiron labor yields, and what, that labor past. Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; What form the... | |
 | Archie Stanton Whitfield - 1921 - 60 pages
...powers of observation. Like Crabbe, whom Byron called 'Nature's sternest poet and her best,' he loved ' The village life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains,' 1 1 Pillage, lines I and 2. 24 because ' 'Tis good to know . . . these turns and movements of the human... | |
 | Archie Stanton Whitfield - 1921 - 64 pages
...powers of observation. Like Crabbe, whom Byron called ' Nature's sternest poet and her best,' he loved ' The Village life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains,'1 1 Village, lines I and 2. because ' 'Tis good to know . . . these turns and movements of... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 pages
...brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. Oliver Goldsmitn 287 VILLAGE LIFE1 THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains; What labor yields, and what, that labor past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; 1 From the first... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...his death. The opening lines of The Village reveal the unsentimental character of Crabbe's poetry: The village life, and every care that reigns O'er...; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, 272 Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...rougher sea, 65 And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 1803 e Crabfae (1754-1832) THE VILLAGE BOOK I ; 8 7; labor yields, and what, that labor past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; What form the... | |
 | 1908 - 976 pages
...Crabbe, for all his lesser genius, looked more squarely into the face of fact, and sadly set forth, — The Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains. Te gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please, Oo ! if... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pages
...reflected in the structure and even the grammatical case of the poem. Crabbe announces a central question: What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of langour, finds at last. Yet the dimension of his answer indicates his real audience, and, therefore,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...generic question and with a parody which is a resounding attack on and demolition of the pastoral manner: The village life, and every care that reigns O'er...yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languour, finds at last; What forms the real picture of the poor, Demand a song - the Muse can give... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 pages
...inhabitants are particularized, and their misery is shared. His subject is not pastoral ease but rural work: "What labour yields, and what, that labour past, / Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last" (3-4). The village is an economic entity, governed by rudimentary laws the science of which, with Adam... | |
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