 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain. Others, on earth, o'er human race preside,...own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain. Others, on earth, o'er human race preside,...own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...pinions in the painted bor. Or brew tierce tempests on the wint'ry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain : Others on earth o'er human race preside,...and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the cure of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne Our humbler province is to tend... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...painted how. Or brew fierce teni|>est!> on tho wint'ry main, Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rniii : knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save....to thy will ; The sea, that roar'd at thy command onus divine the British thron*. Our humble province is to tend the Fair, Not a less pleasing, tho'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintery main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly raia. Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide : Of those the chief the care of nations own, And guard u it h arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...inverted than in their natural order. i For example, in the following lines from the Rape of the Lock : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. Though the melody of the verse inclines US strongly to pause at arms, yet the adjective divine, immediately... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...kindly rain. Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watoh all their ways, and all their actions puidc; Of these the chief the care of nations own. And guard with arms divine the British throne, " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious carr; To save... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...has given us a plain demonstration ; for, speaking of these spirits, he says in express terms, — The chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. And here let it not seem odd, if, in this mysterious way of writing, we find the same person, who has... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...this he has given us a plain demonstration; for, speaking of these spirits, he says, in express terms, -The chief the care of nations own, And guard, with arms divine, the British throne. And here let it not seem odd, if in this mysterious way of writing, we find the same person, who has... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...lay three g&rters || Haifa pair of glovesj And all the trophies || of his former loves. Our humble province || is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing || though less glorious care, And hew triumphal arches || to the ground. These accents make different impressions on the mind, which... | |
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Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on... 
