 There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...  Works: In English Verse - Page 121by Horace - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best Companions grace, UJ Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul : And HE, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines4, Now forms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1896 - 112 pages
...soothes my sleep. , There ray retreat the best of patriots grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place, There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul." Jmit. of Horace, Sat. ni they considered themselves — constantly... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...visits toTwickenham : ' There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place, There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul, And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines * Now forms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...but Boothes my sleep. There my retreat the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul: And He, whose lightning pierc'd the Iberian Hues, Now forms my... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...gave him in gardening. " There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...visits to Twickenham: ' There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place, There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul, And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines * Now forms... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 838 pages
...but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of Eeason, and the Flow of Soul : And He, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines, Now forms... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 384 pages
...imitations of Horace: " There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul." In one of his letters to Swift, Pope (who probably received... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1902 - 662 pages
...Imitations of Horace" : — " Then, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul." 3 Cf. ante, p. 1 1 8, note 1. Boswell, in his "Life," says that... | |
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