 Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...  The London Magazine - Seite 4801821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...parts — Then shall I dare these real ills to hide, In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 416 Seiten
...parts — Then shall I dare these real ills to hide, In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of... | |
 | 1885 - 668 Seiten
...From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...paint it and as bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; O'ercome by labor, and bowed... | |
 | 1885 - 686 Seiten
...From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the cot, JLs Truth will paint it and as bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 Seiten
...From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way? No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; thee. GEORGE CRABBE. Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...congenial with Johnson's own.' — Life of Johnson, iv. 175. Crabbe, in Book I of this poem, says : — •I paint the cot As truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. Nor you, ye Poor, of lettered scorn complain ; To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; O'ercome by labour and bowed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 Seiten
...i-344. ' Most likely Reynolds, who introduced Crabbe to Johnson. Crabbe's Works, ed. 1834, ii. u. 3 ' I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. Nor you, ye Poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bowed... | |
 | 1887 - 896 Seiten
...unpleasant and even revolting incidents, but it is these which no one would invent. His purpose was to paint the cot As Truth will paint it and as bards will not, and also to show that, at the time he wrote, " Auburn and Eden can no more be found." It was his great... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 Seiten
...from sueli resources rise, " All pdinful sense of obligation dies." liurotiyli ('unite. " No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, " Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast, &c." J'illage. To be sure, the rhyme might have misled him, must we say ? — or, perhaps, what will... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 Seiten
...parts : — Then shall I dare these real ills to hide, In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates ; 530 By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As Truth will paint it and as bards will not : Nor... | |
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