 Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep.—- There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning...  The Quarterly Review - Sivu 41870Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1887 - 698 sivua
...in his ' Imitations of Horace ': — And be whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines, Now forms mj quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius...stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. 'Satire,'!. Т.129-132. Turvey, a parish in Bedfordshire, was the ancient home of the Mordaunts, and... | |
 | 1887 - 698 sivua
...Horace ': — And he whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranke my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as be conquered Spain. •Satire,'!, v. 129-132. Turvey, a parish in Bedfordshire, was the ancient home... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 sivua
...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he couquer'd Spain. Envy must own, I live among the great No pimp of pleasure, and no spy of state : With... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 sivua
...with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks...stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Can there be any doubt, after reading these, whether Pope was a great poet or not? INTELLECT IN TALL... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 sivua
...time. He represents him as assisting to lay out his grounds— " And he whose lightning pierced th" Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks...plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." He always speaks of Murray, the great Lord Mansfield, with pride and affection. It is true that one of... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 sivua
...time. He represents him as assisting to lay out his grounds— " And he whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks...plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." He always speaks of Murray, the great Lord Mansfield, with pride and affection. It is true that one of... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 450 sivua
...time. He represents him as assisting to lay out his grounds — " And he whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks...plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." He always speaks of Murray, the great Lord Mansfield, with pride and affection. It is true that one of... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 sivua
...whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or tamea the genius of the stubborn plain, /Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." In his first Pastoral, written when but sixteen, he compliments his friend, Sir John Trumbull, then... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 sivua
...those j>f Gay, Arbuthnot, Swift, and Pope. He lived in great intimacy with the last, who boasts, that, He, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines. Now...stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough bequeathed on his deathbed his watch, a present from the King of Sardinia, that,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 550 sivua
...those of Gay, Arbuthnot, Swift, and Pope. He lived in great intimacy with the last, who boasts, that, He, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now...stubborn. plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough bequeathed on his deathbed his watch, a present from the King of Sardinia, that,... | |
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