 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
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 600 pages
...conceal his contempt for the classic pastoral — true perhaps in antiquity, but out-ofdate in our day : On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If...found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song ? * Virgil's elegance and correctness... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...THE VILLAGE The village life, and ev'ry care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains, What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age,...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...THE VILLAGE The village life, and ev'ry care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains, What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age,...finds at last, What form the real picture of the poor, J Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times when, in harmonious strains, The... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in lis hour of languor, finds at last ; What form the real...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... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 440 pages
...in effect is the satire with which Crabbe crushed the whole illusion a brief dozen years after — 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 ? l . . . From this chief cause these... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 pages
...purpose : 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... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1910 - 656 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, s Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pages
...VILLAGE BOOK I 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... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 306 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 echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1913 - 404 pages
...HISTORY. The village life, and every oare that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age,...the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Mnse can give no more. Croib*. GENTLE RBADER, in case you have come with great expectations to the... | |
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