 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : ' ' Lee : ' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's day. — 1 ' Budgell : ' Addison's... | |
 | James Walter Wall - Europe - 1856 - 336 pages
...soothes my sleep ; There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out ot place , There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason, and the flow of soul." In his private relations, there never existed a better man than Pope. The tender care and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Line 69. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Line 127. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Book ii. Satire ii. Line 159. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 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...bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he,5 whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There Si JOHN mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason...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. Envy must own I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...statesmen out of phrn. There St. John niinglca with my friendly bow The feast of reason and the (low of soul : And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines. Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my tine* Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conqiicr'd Spain.^ Envy must... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 648 pages
...company as the world does not often bring together : — " 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 conquered Spain." In 1735 Bolingbroke... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 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...bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he,3 whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...way. SnAiisrERE. — Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5. (Lady Macbeth reading her husband's Letter.) FEAST.— There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. POPE. — Horace imitated, Sat. 1. Line 127. (To Fortescue.) The latter end of a fray, and... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - Great Britain - 1864 - 424 pages
...company as the world has not often brought together : 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 conquered Spain. In 1735 Bolingbroke... | |
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