 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its' outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the...Shepherd is engraven on the memory of its native country. I in verses have passed into proverbs; and it continues to bo the deliglft and solace of the peasantry... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, of its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, of its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on ihe memory, and has sunk into the heart, »i its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...simpletons — nor drowsy and still landscapes of Nature, but distinct characters and amusing incidents." " Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd \i engraven on the memory of its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, ot its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...continued her history, might have height-ened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, of its native country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...her history, might have heishtened (lit; par-Tail, hut they would not have altered ilsoullmc. I. ike the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, of its native countrv. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continnrs... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the ' Gentle Shepherd' H engraven on tLe memory of its native country. It.s verses have passed into proverbs, and it continues... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1857 - 230 pages
...which it is written shall be understood. " Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto," says Camphell, " that of the ' Gentle .Shepherd ' is engraven on the...country. Its verses have passed into proverbs, and it continnes to be the delight and solace of the peasantry whom it describes." Ramsay married in 17 12... | |
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D'Arblay, had they continued her history, might have heightened the portrait, but they would not have altered its outline. Like the poetry of Tasso and Ariosto, that of the Gentle Shepherd is engraven on the memory, and has sunk into the heart, of its... 
