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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... "
THE MONTHLY REVIEW OR LITERARY JOURNAL VOL. XII\ - Page 310
by SERVERAL HANDS - 1755
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...this coniideration along with us, that paftoral is an 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 conceiv'd then to have been ; when a notion of quality was annex'd to that name, and the befl of men...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...take • this Idea along with us, that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as fhepherds...they may be conceived then to have been ; when the heft of men followed the employment. To carry this refemblance yet farther, it would not be amifs to...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...Paftoral is an image of Xvhat they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our fliepherds as fhepherds at this <day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been ; when the heft of men followed the empjoyment. To carry this refemblance yet farther,' it would not be amifs...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as ihepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of men followed the employment. To carry this refemblance yet further, it would not be amils to...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...to take this Idea along with us, that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as fhepherds...they may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of men followed the employment To carry this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...to take this Idea along with us, that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds as fhepherds...they may be conceived then to have been ; when the beft of, men followed the employment, To carry this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs...
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...image of what they call the golden age, fo that we are not to defcribe our fhepherds, as ftiepherds at this day really are ; but as they may be conceived then to have been. Pope's Difcourfe on Paftorals, p. 5. B 2 mafterly mafterly manner by the Rambler in the 37th number....
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An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages ...: Select Passages ...

Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to defcribe our ihepherds as fliepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been when the beft of men followed the employment. To carry this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

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, when the beft of men followed the employment. To carry thiť refcmblance yet further, it would not be arnifs...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

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 then to have been, when the beft of men followed the employment. To carry this refemblance yet further, it would not be amifs to...
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