 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...pretty compliments to Bolingbroke and Lord Peterborough. " 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 600 pages
...but never answered. II. WD [It will he found in Pope's fmitatioui of Horace, Book ii. Satire i. : " There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul."] Tu Autem. — In page 25. of " Hertfordshire," in Fuller's Worthies, there is a story of... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...pretty compliments to Bolingbroke and Lord Peterborough. " There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place : There St. John nu'ngles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1854 - 522 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...the flow of soul ; And He, whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines ; Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genina of the stubborn... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 pages
...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 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 - English fiction - 1854 - 550 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 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...feast of reason and the flow of soul ; And he whose lightnings pierced the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genius... | |
 | Periodicals - 1855 - 706 pages
...can keep, Kolls 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...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of taaV In his private relations, there never existed a better man. The tender care and affection of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep : There my retreat the best compaiiions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There...lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines j Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Envy must own... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...keep, Rolls o'er ray grotto, and but soothes my sleep. 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 : 1 ' Lee : ' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but tnie poet of Dryden's day. — • ' Budgell : '... | |
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