 | 1807 - 532 pages
...mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 pages
...bards will not : ^^, —«„'•*" "..-••"'*.. --V — ---*--- •* * — ...... . .^.^ , Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, OK glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 302 pages
...mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Got, As truth will paint it and as bards will not : JVor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales your weighty griefs q'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...taught, I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not : Nor you, ye poor, of letter' d scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth...down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme I Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed? Can their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...For you, ye Poor, of letterM scorn complaiu, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercchne by labour and bow'd down by time. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can Poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, "By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...Mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it and as Bards will not : Nor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'eroome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pages
...Mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it and as Bards will not : Nor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 pages
...letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'eroome by labour and bov/d down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe you, when yon pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed '. Can their light tales... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...it, and as bards will not : Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest long avourably providing the remedie, soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 pages
...mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
| |
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... 
