 | Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 308 ページ
...leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never know their pains: No; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither...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; Can poets... | |
 | Johanne Clare - 1987 - 248 ページ
...to contribute to the tradition of pastoral dissent. For he was willing to take Crabbe's claim - to "paint the Cot, / As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not" - into the circle of his own experience; H in all the texts we have been examining, it is not only... | |
 | Roy Porter, Mikulas Teich - 1988 - 368 ページ
...life: . . . Cast by Fortune on a frowning coast, Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast . . . By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it and as Bards will not. (1.49-54) Like so many eighteenth-century poets after the first quarter of the century, Crabbe was... | |
 | 1875 - 398 ページ
...trappings of poetic pride ? No ; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast, Where other cares than those the Muse relates,...examples taught I paint the cot As truth will paint it, but as bards 'Mill not. But Crabbe also erred, though on the other side ; he painted the life of his... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - 1994 - 250 ページ
...and categories framed within the discourse on poverty. Crabbe describes his project as an attempt to "paint the cot, / As truth will paint it, and as bards will not" (Village 1.53-54), and he condemns the pastoral conventions governing the representation of the poor.... | |
 | Verena Ehrich-Haefeli, Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Martin Stern - 1998 - 390 ページ
...reprises, ä savoir que la vision poetique du bonheur des champs est mensongere et illegitime: „[...] I paint the cot / As truth will paint it, and as bards will not" (I, v. 53-54). Sans doute Crabbe se rendait-t-il compte qu'on ne pouvait soumettre l'idylle aux normes... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 ページ
...any political commitment, or does it merely describe, in your opinion? Text: Poem (vi) (vi) [...]! paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; 5 O'ercome... | |
 | Paula Rabinowitz - 2002 - 338 ページ
...Village": No longer truth, though shown in verse, disdain But own the Village Life a life of pain. By such examples taught, I paint the Cot As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. Williams describes Crabbe's bold move away from a tradition of pastoralism, which revered the country... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 ページ
...a gruff speaker impatient with convention, who promises to draw the 'real picture of the poor' and 'paint the cot, / As truth will paint it, and as bards will not' (1.5, 53-4). 20 This sympathetic but hard-headed anti-bard takes on the role of documentary correspondent,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2006 - 56 ページ
...8. 65 Memoir, ed. Sutherland, pp. 71, 172. xlviii of rural poverty, aiming, as he expressed it, to 'paint the cot / As Truth "will paint it, and as Bards "will not'.66 After a long hiatus, he returned to publishing in the nineteenth century very much in his old... | |
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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... 
