 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
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 pages
...youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hours of languor, finds at last ; What form the real picture...poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Yes, thus 'the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains. I grant indeed... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1914 - 532 pages
...stray, Where fancy leads, or Virgil led the way ? " From Johnson's hands little remains unchanged " On Mincio's banks in Caesar's bounteous reign, If...found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dreams prolong Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 pages
...labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; 1 Life of Johnson (G. Birkbeck Hill) iv. 175. What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. As for the amorous swains of convention, who pipe to their nymphs, they have not come within his experience.... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...I. 1783) 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 langour finds at last; What form the real picture of the poor, 5 Demand a song— the Muse can give... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 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... | |
 | Frederick John Foakes-Jackson - 1916 - 366 pages
...stray, Where fancy leads, or Virgil led the way ?" From Johnson's hands little remains unchanged : "On Mincio's banks in Caesar's bounteous reign, If...found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dreams prolong Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...swains ; What labor yields, and what, that labor past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; 5 ott, Foresman JThc poem Is founded on an incident In Lord George Anson's Voyage Round the World (1748). 1 comment... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...THE VILLAGE 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 Milton - 1918 - 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.... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 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 nattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
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