On Mincio'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 stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads... Poems - Pagina 4door George Crabbe - 1810Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pagina’s
...Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards tbe flattering dream prolong, Mecbanick ecboes of the Mantuan song ? " From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, " Wbere Virgil, not where Faney, leads tbe -may ?" lesby, whose reading, and knowledge of life, and... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pagina’s
...Fancy leads, or Virgil led the way ?" " On Mincio's banks, in Cxtar'i bounteous reign, " If Tiiyrus found the golden age again, " Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, " Mcc/ianick echoes of the Mantuan song ? j " From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, " Where... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pagina’s
...complain, And shepherds' boys, their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. THE On MINCIO'S banks, in CESAR'S bounteous reign, If...age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong,Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL,... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pagina’s
...complain, And shepherds' boys., their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. THE On MINCIO'S banks, in CESAR'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... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 pagina’s
...And shepherds' boys, their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On MIKCIO'S banks, in CESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITYRUS 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pagina’s
...Voltaire, Blackmore, and later worthies ; and we may well use the expostulation of a living poet, — ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...stray, Where Virgil not where fancy leads the way?' Here therefore is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken up and rendered... | |
| 1811 - 566 pagina’s
...real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flatt'ring dreams prolong ? Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pagina’s
...in C<csui's bounteous reign, If Tityrutjound the golden age again, Must sleepy bards thejlattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song...and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not vihere Fancy, leads the way ?n " The Village " has been reprinted in Mr Davenport's elegant miscellany,... | |
| George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pagina’s
...in our Lays fond CORYDOHS complain, And Shepherds' Boys their amorous pains reveal, The only paina, alas ! they never feel. On MINCIO'S banks, in CESAR'S...the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantnan Song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where Fancy, leads the... | |
| 1819 - 544 pagina’s
...poet, he must accordingly be classed among the bards whom Crabbe has so happily described, as those who The flattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From truth and nature, still content to stray, Where Virgil not, where fancy leads the way. Yet his taste is correct, his... | |
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