A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 295
... labour the absence of which had seemed to all earlier writers the chief attraction of the Golden Age . The owners of the lands that Thomson describes are proud to live by the sweat of some- one's brow , if not their own . We might ...
... labour the absence of which had seemed to all earlier writers the chief attraction of the Golden Age . The owners of the lands that Thomson describes are proud to live by the sweat of some- one's brow , if not their own . We might ...
Page 388
... Labour we too late lament ; And wish that Strength again we vainly spent . Thus , in the Morn , a Courser have I seen With headlong Fury scour the level Green ; Or mount the hills , if Hills are in his Way , As if no Labour could his ...
... Labour we too late lament ; And wish that Strength again we vainly spent . Thus , in the Morn , a Courser have I seen With headlong Fury scour the level Green ; Or mount the hills , if Hills are in his Way , As if no Labour could his ...
Page 403
... labour spent in vain ; But yet in other scenes more fair in view , When Plenty smiles - alas ! she smiles for few - And those who taste not , yet behold her store , Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore - The wealth around them ...
... labour spent in vain ; But yet in other scenes more fair in view , When Plenty smiles - alas ! she smiles for few - And those who taste not , yet behold her store , Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore - The wealth around them ...
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