A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 234
... happy sports within these shady Groves ; In pleasant lives time slides away apace , But with the wretched seems to creep too slow . FIRST NYMPH : Our happy leisure we imploy in Joys , As innocent as they are pleasant . We , Strangers to ...
... happy sports within these shady Groves ; In pleasant lives time slides away apace , But with the wretched seems to creep too slow . FIRST NYMPH : Our happy leisure we imploy in Joys , As innocent as they are pleasant . We , Strangers to ...
Page 296
... happy labour ' is congenial to them , the natural complement of their physique and character . All this involves Thomson in a pair of contradictory attitudes to nature ; so that when his emphasis is upon the achievement of British ...
... happy labour ' is congenial to them , the natural complement of their physique and character . All this involves Thomson in a pair of contradictory attitudes to nature ; so that when his emphasis is upon the achievement of British ...
Page 428
... happy labour ' performed by Thomson's labourers ; and the arduous nature of work is acknowledged and justified by an appeal to the same idea of harmony with a rough and difficult terrain . And yet Wordsworth's Pastoral is not without ...
... happy labour ' performed by Thomson's labourers ; and the arduous nature of work is acknowledged and justified by an appeal to the same idea of harmony with a rough and difficult terrain . And yet Wordsworth's Pastoral is not without ...
Contents
Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE alwayes Ametas AMORET Arcadia beneath birds breath Ceres charms Colin COMUS court dear delight doth dwell earth Eclogue ev'ry eyes fair fear feast feed fields fleece flocks flowers Garden gentle Georgic Golden Age grace green groves hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heaven Helpston hills innocence John Clare labour lambs land live look Lord Lycidas maid MELLIFLEUR mind mirth morn Muse nature never night nymph o'er pain Pastoral Pastoral Poetry PERDITA PERIGOT pipe plain pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rest rich rise ROBIN-HOOD round rural rustic scene shade sheep shepherds sing smiling soft song soul spring Stephen Duck strain stream swain sweet thee THENOT Theocritus thine thou thought toil town tradition trees unto vale version of Pastoral wild winds winter Winter's Tale woods youth