| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 - 302 psl.
...boys, their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On MINCIO'S banks, in CESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITYRUS found the Golden Age again,...sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echo's of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL, not where fancy,... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 psl.
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. THE On MINCIO'S banks, in 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 truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where VIRGIL,... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 psl.
...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... | |
| George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 psl.
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. THE On MINCIO'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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...Boys their amorous pains reveal, The only paina, alas ! they never feel. On MINCIO'S banks, in CESAR'S bounteous reign, If TITYRUS found the Golden Age again,...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... | |
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