 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 halaman
...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 ?" VOL. XVII. V Here, therefore, is one road to the temple of fame, not indeed blockaded, but broken... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 halaman
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar'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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 halaman
...seventy-fourth year, and owes to him the finest lines that it contains.1 The collection of poems published in 1 Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? 1807 contained 'The Parish Register,' 'The Hall of Justice,' and ' Sir Eustace Grey.' The first of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 halaman
...seventy-fourth year, and owes to him the finest lines that it contains.1 The collection of poems published in 1 Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...of the Mantuan song ? From truth and nature shall wo widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? 1807 contained 'The Parish Register,'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 halaman
...Where Fancy leads, or Virgil leads the way ? " " On Mincio's banks, in Cesar's bounteous reign, Jf Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echos of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray. Where Virgil, not... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 halaman
...into the region of bathos are quite startling, and have a most comical effect. For example : — 1 " Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way?" " Nor angler we on our wide stream descry, But one poor dredger, where his oysters lie : He, cold and... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 halaman
...boys their amorous pains revealj The only pains alas! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Cffisar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again,...prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Troth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? I Yetf, thus... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 halaman
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again,...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? ******* No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast ; Where... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 halaman
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, -alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Ctesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again,...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? ******* No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast ;... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 halaman
...their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again,...stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? ******* No; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where... | |
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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... 
