| SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pàgines
...hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five a&s? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for the rooft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. &*. BROOM E. WILLIAMBROOMEwasborn... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 pàgines
...reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pàgines
...reprefentation through a long work. A Paftoral of an hundred 'lines may be endured; but who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 332 pàgines
...of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five afts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for tiia moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. C a GRANGRANVILLEOF GEORGE... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers,...will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wi~e, and nations grow learned* GRANVILLE. G ft ANVILL E. F GEORGE GRAN V' 1 1 LE, or as others write... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pàgines
...of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five ails ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for the moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. GRANGRANVILLE. OF GEORGE GRANVILLE,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...through a long work. A Paftpral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who who will hear of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and chil-r dren in the dawn of life ; but will... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...nerer support its- representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers,...barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the davVn of life ; but will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 428 pàgines
...of fheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acls ? Such fcenes pleafe Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for the moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. GRANGRANVILLEOF GEORGE GRANVILLE,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pàgines
...uever support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers...of life; but will be for the most part thrown away, a« men grow wise, and nations grow learned. VOL. X. Ff POEMS JOHN GAY. RURAL SPORTS. A CEOHCIC. INSCRIBED... | |
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