 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...  Harrow School and Its Surroundings - Page 96by Percy Melville Thornton - 1885 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 924 pages
...a draught Ai brings all Drobdiguag before jour thought. To compass this, liis building na town, lia pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master «hen he see«, A puny insecT, shivering Ht a breeze ! Lo, what huge heaps of li'.tlencss around Î... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...draught, At brings all Brotxlingnag before your thought. To compass this, hii building is a town, 105 His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must...breeze ! Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around ! 1 he whole a labor 'd quarry above ground. 110 Two Cupids squirt before ; a lake bebind Improves... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...away!' So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatuess with Timon dwells in such a draught As brings all...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there Greatness, with Tirnon, ear, shiv'ring-at a breeze ! IA what huge heaps of littleness around ! llie whole a labor'd quarry above... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...before your thought. To compass this, bis building is a town, His pond an (vein, his [ftirtcrre ii down : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivcrin: at a breeze ! Io, what linire. heaps of littleness around! The whole a laboe.r'd quarry above... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...your thought. To compass (his, his building : • a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a dowri : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivering at a breeze ! . Io, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole a labour M quarry above... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...yews : The thriving plants, ignoble broomsticks made, Now sweep those alleys they were born to shade. At Timon's villa let us pass a day, Where all cry...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...yews ; The thriving plants, ignoble broomsticks made, Now sweep those alleys they were born to shade. At Timon's villa let us pass a day; Where all cry...must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect shivering at a breeze ! Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! The whole a labour'd quarry above... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, " What sums are thrown away 1" So proud, so grand; ofthat ng repress; — pnny insect, shivering at a breeze 1 Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole, a labour'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, 105 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 labour'd quarry above... | |
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