 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1907 - 606 Seiten
...Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before your thought ; To compass this his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down." But in an age when Houghton and Wentworth Wodehouse, Blenheim and Castle Howard laid their heavy weight... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 456 Seiten
...Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his Building is a Town, His pond an Ocean, his parterre a Down : Who but must laugh, the Master when he sees, A puny insect, shiv'ring at a breeze ! Lo, what huge heaps of... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 Seiten
...Timon's idea of greatness dwells in such designs as bring all Brobdignag before the mind. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivering in a breeze ? His gardens next your admiration... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1909 - 442 Seiten
...with (Vanbrugh) dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before your thought ; To compass this his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down." But notwithstanding this mania for the heaping of stones one on the other, it was only in the exteriors... | |
 | Richard Alexander Streatfeild - 1910 - 418 Seiten
...Chandos in his Epistle to Lord Burlington, made fun of the princely owner's megalomania : — "To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down," and ridiculed the tasteless magnificence that reigned in every corner. But humbler mortals bowed before... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...Greatness, with Tlmon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a Town, His pond an Ocean, his parterre a Down : Who but must laugh, the Master when he sees, A puny insect, shiv'ring at a breeze ! Lo ! what huge heaps of... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 Seiten
...Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught 103 As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a Town, His pond an Ocean, his parterre a Down: Who but must laugh, the Master when he sees, A puny insect, shiv'ring at a breeze! Timon's massive, exaggerated... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 Seiten
...Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a Town, His pond an Ocean, his parterre a Down: Who but must laugh, the Master when he sees, A puny insect, shiv'ring at a breeze! Lo, what huge heaps of littleness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...ornaments as pyramids of dark-green continually repeated, not unlike a funeral procession. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down: Who but must laugh, the master when he sees? A puny insect, shivering at a breeze. Lo! what huge heaps of litdeness... | |
 | William J. Christmas - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...occasion for Pope's venting at the Brobdingnagian proportions of modern country estates—"To compass this, his building is a Town, / His pond an Ocean, his parterre a Down" (147)—and so the conspicuous consumption of their aristocratic owners. Whereas the house was the... | |
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So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a... 
