 If we would copy nature, it may be useful to take this idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then...  The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope - Page 5by Alexander Pope - 1717 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1884 - 646 pages
...says : If we ' would copy nature it may be useful to take this idea along ' with us, that the pastoral is an image of what they call ' the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shep' herds, as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may ' be conceived to have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...delightful. If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then to have... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...already quoted: "If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that Pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...Pope writes: If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then to have... | |
 | Kathryn J. Gutzwiller - Country life in literature - 1991 - 322 pages
...paradigmatic age: If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then to have... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - Literary Collections - 1996 - 262 pages
...lives of contemporary laborers, even selectively: "We are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd...notion of quality was annex'd to that name, and the best of men follow'd the employment" (ed. Ault, 298). Spenser, of course, sets his "land of Faery"... | |
 | Fiona J. Stafford, Howard Gaskill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 284 pages
...is no great Wonder if some of them were Scholars, and Philosophers"; Pope maintained that, "pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds in this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then to have... | |
 | Carol Buchanan - Gardening - 2001 - 256 pages
...Pastoral Poetry": If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that Pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...Britain: "If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden Age. So that we are not able to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then... | |
 | Robert Crawford - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...convention: 'If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that Pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceiv'd then to have... | |
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