 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 548 pages
...can keep 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...reason and the flow of soul ; And HE, whose lightning pip rc'd th' Iberian lines. Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the Genius of the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 590 pages
...can keep 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...mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason und the flow of soul ; And HE, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...name. Il „• ¿VV\ Dryden. To Ais Sacred Majetiy. 'l'hère, ni v retrexL the best companions trace, Chiefs out of war and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with mv friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. i Pope. Harnee, Satire 1 . book ii. But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. b There, my retreat the best companions grace, 125 Chiefs...the flow of soul ; And HE, whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; , 130 Or tames the genius of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...perhaps their most durable celebration to their being united with his assisting Pope in his garden : " And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain." 4 Jervas's house... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...run so victorious a career in Spain, did not disdain to lay on a helping hand. " He whose lightnings pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines." Even the querulous dean, even the proud Bolingbroke, as well as the easy and good-humoured Gay, zealously... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...but soothes my sleep. There my retreat the best companions grace, 'Chiefs out of war and statesman out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl THE FEAST or REASON AND THE rtow or SOUL ; And he,* whose lightning pierce 1 the Iberian lines, Now forms my... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...can keep 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...lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conqucr'd Spain." And again in praise... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...keep, 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...And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines u, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...keep, 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...lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he couquer'd Spain. Envy must own,... | |
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There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul... 
