 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...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2821811Full view - About this book
 | 1807 - 532 pages
...bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? * First published iu 1783. From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where...swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough ;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...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 Virgil, not where fancy, leads the uaj/ ?" Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminished. I must, however, observe,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 pages
...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...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...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...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...CESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITYRUS found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong,. Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...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...happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 302 pages
...TITYRUS found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echo's of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall...happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their Peasants' pipes ; but Peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
 | 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 - 562 pages
...and we may well use the expostulation of a living poet, — ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From...stray, Where Virgil not where fancy leads the way r* Here therefore is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken up and rendered... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...CJESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITYRUS found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy Bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From...happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their Peasants' pipes ; but Peasants now Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough... | |
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