| William Russell - 1802 - 514 páginas
...to the couplet, and of extending it farther, in compositions of a different species, " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, " Not a less pleasing,...less glorious care ; *' To save the powder from too rough a gale, " Nor let th'imprison'd essences exhale ; " To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers,... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 páginas
...following passage, has excelled any thing in Shakespeare, or perhaps in any other author. Our humbler province is to tend the fair; Not a less pleasing,...though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rough a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs,... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...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,...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the' imprisun'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal tlow'rs ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...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,...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, NoL a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rnde a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers;... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with onus divine the British thron*. Our humble province is to tend the Fair, Not a less pleasing, tho' less glorious care j To save the powder from too rude « gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...those the chief the care of nations own, And guard u it h arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor lot th' iiiiprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the venial flowers ; To steal from... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...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 the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd e-wences exhale ; To draw fresh... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 páginas
...But with admirable approbation he proceeds, addressing himself exclusively to the Sylphs: Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a ga!ef Nor let th* imprisoned essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...kind : There 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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