 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
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Minqjo'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... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...Corydons complain, And shepherd's 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 echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 pages
...VILLAGE LIFE. 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. I grant, indeed, that fields and flocks have charms For him that grazes or for him that farms ; But... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - 1888 - 184 pages
...stray, Where Fancy leads, or Virgil led the way ? " * English in Ireland, ii., 395. Johnson wrote:— " On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pages
...muse ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where fancy leads, or Virgil led the way ? " " On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, M1nt sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 236 pages
...Crabbe's Village, canto I ; he is condemning false pictures of rural life drawn in imitation of Vergil : " On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If...found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song?" Honoured, ie by the poetry of Vergil.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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 prolon;:, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | Bertha Marian Skeat - 1897 - 676 pages
...folgendennassen aus : 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. Er tritt damit jenen Idyllendichtcrn gegenüber, welche, Theocrit nachahmend, die ländliche Scenerie... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...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 echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pages
...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 echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
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