A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 143
... land to work for his food . The seventeenth century produced many ' imitations ' of Horace's ' Epode , In Praise of a Country Life ' , and , although space will not permit examples , the opening of that of Jonson will make the point ...
... land to work for his food . The seventeenth century produced many ' imitations ' of Horace's ' Epode , In Praise of a Country Life ' , and , although space will not permit examples , the opening of that of Jonson will make the point ...
Page 392
... land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride ...
... land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride ...
Page 403
... land ; While still for flight the ready wing is spread So waited I the favouring hour , and fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign , And cried , Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean ...
... land ; While still for flight the ready wing is spread So waited I the favouring hour , and fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign , And cried , Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean ...
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