 Approach ; but awful ! lo ! the ^Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John sat and thought; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul. Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, Who dare...  The Patrician - Page 44edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...conferred an undying interest on his favourite cave : — " Approach, but awful I lo I the JEgerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John sat and thought...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Again, the poet exclaims in one of his Imitations of Horace : — " There, my retreat the best companions... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 476 pages
...have conferred an undying interest on his favourite cave:— " Approach, but awful I lo I the JEgerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John sat and thought;...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Again, the poet exclaims in one of his Imitations of Horace:— " There, my retreat the best companions... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Country life - 1844 - 432 pages
...those beautiful lines " On his Grotto at Twickenham," which have conferred an undying interest on it. Approach, but awful ! lo ! the ^Egerian grot, Where,...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor. The love of gardens and of gardening appears to be almost exclusively confined to the English, and... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Country life - 1844 - 456 pages
...Twickenham," which have conferred an undying interest on it. Approach, but awful ! lo ! the .Algerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John sat and thought...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor. The love of gardens and of gardening appears to be almost exclusively confined to the English, and... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...thought ; Where British sighs from dying Windham stole, And the bright flame was shot through Marchmoot's soul. Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Adding, too, his description in prose, written in 1725 : " I have put my last hand to my works of this... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 444 pages
...Marchmont,* already mentioned as Lord Pol* " Lo ! the JSgerian Grot, Where nobly pensive St. John sate and thought, Where British sighs from dying Wyndham...Floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Pope's Verses on his Grotto at Twickenham. 1740. warth, a very distinguished person, who added to great... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1846 - 476 pages
...Twickenham," which have conferred an undying interest on his favourite cave : — " Approach, but awful ! lo I the ^Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Again, the poet exclaims in one of his Imitations of Horace : — " There, my retreat the best companions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...Britain is the only place in the globe which feels not tyranny even to its very entrails. — Warburton. Where British sighs from dying WYNDHAM stole, And...Floor, Who dare to love their Country, and be poor. NOTES. the conversations, and manner of Pope's friends passing their time in his Garden, is not uninteresting... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...pensive, St. John sat and thought ; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And the bright name was shot through Marchmont's soul. Let such, such...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." But it was not merely in forming this grotto that Pope employed himself; it was in building and extending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...sat and thought, Where British sighs from dying WYNDHAM stole, And the bright flame was shot thro' MARCHMONT'S soul. Let such, such only, tread this...floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor." Mr. Wortley was recalled from his embassy to Constantinople in October, 1717; but he did not commence... | |
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