 Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...  The London Magazine - Page 4801821Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 pages
...determined to write, with entire fidelity, and for such good as it might do, the poetry of the life he knew. "By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As Truth will paint it and as bards will not. . . . Can poets soothe you,when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed?" Tales... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1905 - 720 pages
...heart of the community itself. " Cast by fortune on a frowning coast," the Suffolk poet announces, I paint the cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. This descriptiva passage in " The Village," taken as a contrast to Goldsmith's work, fully merits the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1905 - 570 pages
...their parts : Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast ; jo Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates ; By... | |
 | 1905 - 584 pages
...shall we widely stray, " No, cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which can no groves nor happy vallies boast ; Where other cares than those the Muse relates,...cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not : " Of the part Johnson played as critic to the MS. of "The Village," Boswell gives some account in... | |
 | 1864 - 612 pages
...the way ? ****** No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy vales cm boast ; Where other cares than those the muse relates,...examples taught, I paint the cot, As Truth' will paint it out and as bards will not. Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you the smoothest song... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - 1907 - 542 pages
...day. These lines from The Village convey the impression of his characteristic attitude : No ; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves...cot, As Truth will paint it and as bards will not. Crabbe is the most realistic of English poets ; William Blake is the most extremely fantastic and idealistic.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? No; cast by fortune on a frowning coast, 49 Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where...paint it and as bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; O'ercome by labour, and bowed... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1907 - 584 pages
...and beauty, he dealt with Nature. The object of The Village was to confront fiction with truth, to Paint the cot As truth will paint it, and as bards will not. What beauty his descriptions have is the beauty they derive from truth, the beauty which is in the... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 596 pages
...indicative. It appears that this fault is common in Suffolk. In The Village, i. 49, 50 : " No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast" evidently " boasts " should be read, but in the first edition the line ran : " Which can no groves... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pages
...that insistence on the truth? Crabbe's poem, The Village, needs to be read between these questions. By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. Truth again, and against poetry. Whatever we may later ask about Crabbe's England, it is clear that... | |
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