...boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Gcsar'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...

...Nature shall we widely stray, Where Fancy leads, or Virgil led the way?' ' On Mincio's banks, in Cesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan songf From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not...

...Where Fancy leads, or Virgil led the way?' ' On Mincio's banks, in Cesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrvs found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanick echoes of the Mantuan songf From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, • Where Virgil,...

...led the way ? " * Engi:sh in Ireland, ii., 395. Johnson wrote : — " On Mincio's banks, in Coesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again,...stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? " Crabbe meant to say that, whether Virgil's pastorals were true to nature or not in his own day, they...

...life are dissipated. If original pastoral ,poetry were written now, men would ask with Crabbe — ' Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...stray, "Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? ' Virgil copies Theocritus because he felt the 'inherent weakness of this class of composition too...

...shall we widely stray. Where Fancy leads, or Virgil leads the way ? " " On Mincio's banks, in Cesar's bounteous reign. If 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 w1dely stray, Where Virgil, not...

...way ? " " On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, M1nt sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic...leads the way?" Here we find Johnson's poetical and crit1cal powers undiminished. I must however observe, that the aids he gave to this poem, as to The...

...golden age again, Must ttleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song t From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy lead's the way t " Here we 3nd Johnson's poetical and critical powers undimlnished. I must however...

...way?" " On Mincio'a banks, in Cesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrui found the golden age again, Mutt sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song t From truth and nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy. leads the way I'' Here...

...poet, he must accordingly be classed among the bards whom Crabbe has so happily described, as those who "The flattering dream prolong Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song, From truth and nature, still content to stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy leads the way." " Yet his taste is correct, his...