 There is something in the poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility, that we can 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,...  The Living Age - Page 1001874Full view - About this book
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...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 the moft part thrown away, as men grow wife, and nations grow learned. :. > .' u • .. i ..' i. • •... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...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 lite-r rature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
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