 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...keep, Rulls o'er my grotto, and hut soothea my sleep. There, my retreat the hest companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly howl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierced the Iherisn lines,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as lie conquer'd Spain. Envy must own I... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1060 pages
...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 forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 pages
...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 forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Great Britain - 1840 - 448 pages
...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 forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 696 pages
...those of Gay, Avbuthnot, Swift, and Pope. He lived in great intimacy with the last, who bouts, that cted by. A house in Whitechapel was shut up for the sake of one infected maid, who had only Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly ai he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...poet exclaims in one of his Imitations of Horace : — " There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There...my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul." In one of his letters to Swift, Pope, (who probably received the following account from Bolingbroke's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 470 pages
...poet exclaims in one of his Imitations of Horace : — " There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There...my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul." In one of his letters to Swift, Pope, (who probably received the following account from Bolingbroke's... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 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...reason and the flow of soul ; And HE, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the Genius of the... | |
| |