 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 722 pages
...Spain. "These lines on the subject were never more applicable than they have now become : 1 Now Europe's balanced — neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales.' "If we pursue the same policy, we must travel the same road, ind endure the same burdens, under which... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...wits to worms shall turn, Who maggots were before. EPIGRAM ON MRS. TOFTS (A celebrated Opera Singer.) So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts must have starved and the poet have died. Joseph Addison, whose literary work had a decided influence on English letters and manners, contributed... | |
 | Leonard Woolf - Arbitration (International law) - 1916 - 448 pages
...be expected to achieve. GBS PART I AN INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY AND THE PREVENTION OF WAR By LS Woolf 'Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales." — Sw1rr. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION "/^VN the conclusion of the war the working If classes of all the... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1927 - 654 pages
...Alexander Pope. 13 Epigram on Mrs. Tofts, A handsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very covetous and proud. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. Epigram On a Headmaster who made long Epitaphs. Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1882 - 588 pages
...certainly not ruined by such artistes as Mrs. Tofts, of whom Pope sings : VOL. LVIII. NO. CXVI. Y " So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn botli the beasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the... | |
 | Royal Musical Association - Music - 1914 - 272 pages
...the " Epigram on Mrs. Tofts, a handsome woman with a fine voice, but very covetous and proud " : — So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and their poet have died. In December, 1707, a memorial was presented to Mr. Rich which is among these... | |
 | Peter Malanczuk, Michael Barton Akehurst - Law - 1997 - 476 pages
...nineteenth century, the classic period of the balance of power.8 Despite Alexander Pope's cynical comment - 'Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales' - the balance-of-power system was fairly successful in making wars rare. The expense, destructiveness... | |
 | Strobe Talbott - History - 2008 - 505 pages
...dominance. In 1715, Alexander Pope summarized this inclination toward collective restraint in a couplet: Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales. A principle associated with the international politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries —... | |
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So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced,... 
