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" Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. "
Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon - Page 177
by Belgravia - 1881 - 2 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. no Two Cupids squirt before; a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern winds. His gardens...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1796 - 504 pages
...parterre a down : Who but must laugh the master when he sees, A puny insect shiv'ring at a bree2e! Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. no Two Cupids squirt before; a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern winds. His gardens...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. 110 Two Cupids squirt before ; a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 pages
...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 around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. Two cupids squirt before: a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...ocean, his pai terre a down : Who but must laujh the roaster when he sees, Л puny insect shiv'i ing at a breeze ! lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! The whole a laboiir'd quarry ab-ive ground. Two Cupids »quirt before; a lake behind Improves the Keenness of tin-...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must langh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivering at a breeze! Lo, what huge...around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. Two-Cupids squirt before: a lake behind Improves the keeuness of the northern wind. His gardens next...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...parterre a down : Who but mnst laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect shivering at a breeze ! LiO, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect shivering at a breeze ! Ix>, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole a labour'd quarry above ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Improves the keeuness of the northern wind. His gardens next...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

1809 - 488 pages
...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 littleness around! The whole a labor'd quarry above ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...Architects of ruin;" and Pope affords an instance of witty contrast in his ridicule of Timon's villa " Lo ! what huge heaps of littleness around; " The whole a labour'd quarry above ground." The contrast must not however be too violent, nor must it involve any thing of too serious a nature, for...
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