 Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 69von Alexander Pope - 1822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 Seiten
...Spain within a wonderfully short time. He represents him as assisting to lay out his grounds — " And he whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines Now...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 Mansfield, with... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...sleep. 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 : 1 ' Lee : ' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but tnie poet of Dryden's day. — • ' Budgell : '... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...sleep. 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 : ' ' Lee : ' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's day. — 1 ' Budgell : ' Addison's... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...Line 69. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Line 127. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Book ii. Satire ii. Line 159. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming,... | |
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 Seiten
...sleep ; There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out ot place , There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason, and the flow of soul." In his private relations, there never existed a better man than Pope. The tender care and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...Sleep. There, my Retreat the best Companions grace, 125 Chiefs, out of War, and Statesmen, out of Place. There St. John mingles with my friendly Bowl, The...And He, whose Lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines, to have written a twenty-five act play there. Budgeli, who was to commit suicide in 1737, was a m1scellaneous... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 Seiten
...alludes to a line by Alexander Pope. In his "Imitations of Horace: Satires. Book II, Satire I," he says, "There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl/ The feast of reason and the flow of soul" (11. 12728). 604.22/588.24 COME WIPE YOUR NAME OFF THE SLATE Though this phrase is common... | |
 | Ralph Ketcham - 1987 - 294 Seiten
...Triumvirate between your self and me," and he later celebrated Bolingbroke's congeniality and good sense: There ST. JOHN mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of Reason and the Flow of soul. In fact, the three men were stimulating and encouraging one another to mount what they hoped... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 Seiten
.../ 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" (lines 123-28). Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), was a controversial English... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...visitors: 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. (IV, 11) But we have other testimony to its intricately private meaning for Pope. As a prime... | |
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