 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...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2821811Full view - About this book
 | Julia Patton - 1918 - 264 pages
...attitude toward literature. Crabbe was impelled to write what life supplied him; those things which " form the real Picture of the Poor, Demand a song, — the Muse can give no more." Scott felt no such compulsion, and his comment on Crabbe furnishes a fair key to his own poetic practice.... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labor yields, and what, that labor ke not. (F/ B Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...following verses are, almost wholly, Johnson's improvements on Crabbe's original composition : — " On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleeping bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...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...found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echo's of the Mantuan song? From truth and nature shall we widely... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, 272 Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last; What form...poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains; No shepherds... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...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; What form the real Picture of the Poor, 5 Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 304 pages
...And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Miiicio'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... | |
 | Crabbe - 1967 - 492 pages
...VILLAGE BOOK 1 The Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age,...poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds... | |
 | 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
...pastoral manner: 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 languour, finds at last; What forms the real picture of the poor, Demand a song - the Muse can give... | |
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