 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...lay three garters || half a pair of gloves, 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintery 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 - 1849 - 638 pages
...kindly rain. Others on earth, o'er homan race preside, Wateh all their ways, and all their aetions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Oor homhler province is to tend the fair, Nut a less pleasing, though leaa glorious care ; To save... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintery main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain. Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guids.n Pope. To the Editors of the Microscope, PROUD, presumptuous, weak, yet highly favoured mortals... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintery main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain. Others on earth o'er human race preside,...Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide I Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " Our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, 85 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. NOTES. Shakspeare only could have thought of the following gratifications for Titania's lover ; and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, 85 Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain. Others on earth o'er human race preside,...chief the care of Nations own, And guard with arms divinejhe British Throne. NOTES. Shakspeare only could have thought of the following gratifications... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 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... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 484 pages
...of confining his sense to the couplet, and of extending it in compositions of a different species. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though leas glorious care ; To save the powilerTrom too rough H gale, Nor 1ft th' imprison M essences exhale;... | |
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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... 
