...dream prolong, Afechanick echos of the Mantuan song ? from Truth and Nature shall we widely strav, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way." Here we find Johnson's poetical and critical powers undiminishcd. I must, however, observe, that the aids he gave to this poem, as to " The Traveller "...

...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...

...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...

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...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...

...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...

...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 ;...

...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...

...lays fond Corydons complain, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Gesar'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; thee. GEORGE...

...because they alternate with really fine descriptive passages, such as that on 1 'Must sleepy liards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the...widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads tho way ? ' » Extract Book, art. 169. the sea and strand which may be found in the same letter. A...