 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 178 pàgines
...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...pipes and plod behind the plough ; And few, amid the Rural-tribe, have time To number syllables and play with rhyme; Save honest DUCK, what son of Verse... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pàgines
...age again, Must sleepy bards the flatt'ring dreams prolong ? Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray Where...swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains.— Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? By such examples taught,... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...living poet, — ' 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 way r* Here therefore is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken up and rendered... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pàgines
...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...pipes and plod behind the plough ; And few, amid the Rural-tribe, have time To number syllables and play with rhyme ; Save honest DUCK, what son of Verse... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pàgines
...Golden Age again, Must sleepy Bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantnan Song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where...pipes and plod behind the plough ; And few, amid the Rural-tribe, have time To number syllables and play with rhyme ; Save honest DUCK, what son of Verse... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pàgines
...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...pipes and plod behind the plough ; And few, amid the Rural-tribe, have time To number syllables and play with rhyme ; Save honest DUCK, what son of Verse... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 pàgines
...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 way ? Yes, thug the Muses sing of happy Swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains : They boast their Peasants'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pàgines
...age again, Must sleepy bards the Jlattcring dream prolong, Afechanick echoes of the Mantuan sojig $ From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, If ads the way?" Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminished. I must, however,... | |
 | 1840 - 614 pàgines
...As Crabbe, who may be said to have looked into the inside of rural life, has truly said, " Yes, they (the Muses) sing of happy swains. Because the Muses never knew their pains." Nevertheless, as in all situations in life, much depends on the habits of the occupiers, as to the... | |
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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... 
