 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...fhepherds at this day really are, but .as they * Heinfius in Theocr. f Rapin, de Carm. Paft. pz may may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft...refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give theffe fhepherds fome fkill in afironbmy, as far as it may be ufeful to that fort of life. And an air... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...fhepherds at this day really are, but as they * Heinfius in Theocr. f Rapin, de<Jarm, Paft. p. 1. way may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of men followed the employment. To carry this refemblancc yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe ftepherds fome fkill in aftronomy, as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 406 pages
...as (hepherds at this day really are, but as they * Heinfius in Theocr. f Rapin, de Cam. Paft. p. z, may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of men followed the employment. To cany this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe fhepherds feme (kill in aftronomy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...POETRY. 19 may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of men followed the employment. To cany this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe ftiepherds fome flcill in aftronomy, as far as it may be ufeful to that fort of life. And an air of... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...call the Golden Age. Se that we are not to defcribe our (hepherds as flicpherds at this day > ,-..liy are, but as they may be conceived then to have been,...the beft of men followed the employment. To carry thi» refcmblance yet further, it would not be arnifs to give thrfc flicpherds fome Ikill in aftronomy,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...image of what they call the Golden Age i fo that we are not to delcribe our (hepherds as (hepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived...refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe (hepherds fome ikill in aftronomy, .as far as it may be uieful to that fort of lire i and and an air... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...image of what they call the golden age *. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as fhepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived...refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe fhepherds fome fkill in aftronomy, as far as it may be ufeful to that fort of life. And an air of piety... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...image of what they call the golden age *. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as fhepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived...refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to give thefe fhepherds fome fkill in aftronomy, as far as it may be ufeful to that fort of life. And an air of piety... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...innocence and undefigning plainnefs, we are not to defcribe (hepherds as they really arc at this day, but as they may be conceived then to have been, when the beft of men, and even princes, followed the employment. For this reafon, an air of piety {hould run through the... | |
 | 1802 - 510 pages
...an image of what " they call the golden age," and by defcribing " ihepherds" not " as " (lieplierds at this day really are, " but as they may be conceived then " to have been ;" although it is evident, that to figure or conceive, and to imitate, are very different operations... | |
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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... 
