 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...Saturnian age of Lead 10. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe11 would take her down, 30 Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand 12, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye,... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - English language - 1885 - 362 pages
...sting, or («") good-natured. («') is Satire; (a"), Humor, (b) is Wit. 1 Thus ;— (a') "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...being under the reign of Saturn ; but in the Chemical language Saturn is lead. — PW Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,i 30 Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,3 Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...Saturnian age of Lead 10. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe11 would take her down, 30 Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand ls, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...Saturnian age of Lead 10. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe11 would take her down, 30 Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand 12, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye,... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...Here pleased behold her mighty wings outspread To hatch a new Saturnian age of lead. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ;... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...Here pleased behold her mighty wings outspread To hatch a new Saturnian age of lead. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...To hatch a new Saturnian age of Lead. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And langhs to think Monroe would take her down, 30 Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - Art - 1903 - 658 pages
...to prosper, he forgets 'tis sure The richest land's the land of fewest poor : Sea-bailiff bold his " folly holds her throne And laughs to think Monroe would take her down," Yet winces when the shafts of Vorwdrts fly, And dreads the Tower of Bebel mounting high. Is he to be... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1906 - 618 pages
...James Monro, Senior Physician to Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals. He died Nov. 3, 1752— " Those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down." — Pope. CUNNINOHAM. • He afterwards came to England, where he suffered much from poverty and destitution,... | |
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Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave... 
