 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 pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius...  Hours in a Library - Seite 153von Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 392 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 356 Seiten
...And he, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Envy must own I live among the great, K"o pimp of pleasure, and no spy of state. With eyes that pry... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 240 Seiten
...; And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain." The grotto, one would fear, was better fitted for frogs than for philosophers capable of rheumatic... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 360 Seiten
...And he, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Envy must own I live among the great, No pimp of pleasure, and no spy of state. With eyes that pry... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 Seiten
...soul; And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain." The grotto, one would fear, was better fitted for frogs than for philosophers capable... | |
 | 1881 - 440 Seiten
...soul ; And he1 whose lightning pierced Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. Envy must own I live among the great, No pimp of pleasure and no spy of state. With eyes that pry not,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 Seiten
...And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines,' Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain.4 125 130 freedom with which he lived in the company of the great. However unworthy I may be,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 Seiten
...And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines,' Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain.4 ' y<j?P 120 129 freedom with which he lived in the company of the great. However unworthy I... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 Seiten
...And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain." f Pope's fondness for and pride in his Twickenham villa— my "Tusculum," as he called... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 Seiten
...— " He, whose lightning pierc'd the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.'' It was somewhat of poetical licence to represent him as having "conquer'd Spain,"... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1885 - 568 Seiten
...that, He, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain. To Pope, Peterborough bequeathed on his deathbed his watch, a present from the King^ of Sardinia, that,... | |
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