 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 pages
...sometimes by his distinguished visitors, including the gallant Peterborough. And he whose lightning pierced th' 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. The grotto was in some measure a work of necessity.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pages
...sometimes by his distinguished visitors, including the gallant Peterborough. And he whose lightning pierced th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genins of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain. The grotto was in some measure... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...There St. John nu'ngles with my friendly bowl, The feast of 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 tamea the genius of the stubborn plain, /Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." In his first Pastoral,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 pages
...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 bequeathed on his deathbed... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - English fiction - 1854 - 550 pages
...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 bequeathed on his deathbed... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1854 - 522 pages
...mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and 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 plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer 'd Spain. character of him accords pretty... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...with my friendly bowl The 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 of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Frederick Prince of Wales took a lively interest... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Labor and laboring classes - 1856 - 640 pages
...a wonderfully short time. He represents him as assisting to lay out his grounds — " And he whose lightning pierc'd th' 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." He always speaks of Murray, the great Lord... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...relation, who drowned himself in the Thames. And he, whose lightning3 pierced th' Iberian lines, 129 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 live among the great, No... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...relation, who drowned himself in the Thames. And he, whose lightning3 pierced th' Iberian lines, 129 Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Envy must own, I live among the great, No... | |
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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 th... 
