 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 pages
...ascendancy which she lost over Queen Anne. CHARACTER OP THE DUKE OF CHANDOS, AND DESCRIPTION OF HIS VILLA. At Timon's villa, let us pass a day ;" Where all cry...away ! " So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air, Greatness with Timon dwells, in such a draught At brings all Uroudingnag before your thought. To compass... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 392 pages
...the Duke. Pope once more espouses Swift's side, and satirises the place and person of the Duke thus : At Timon's villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out what sums are thrown away : Who but must laugh the master when he sees A puny insect shivering at a breeze. I think these quotations... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 488 pages
...loves, Foe to the Dryads of his Father's groves; One boundless Green, or flourish'd Carpet views, 95 At Timon's Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, "What sums are thrown away!" 100 So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness, with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 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...grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. loo Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 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 out, ' What sums are thrown away;' к» So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there; Greatness with... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1907 - 354 pages
...contain a lengthy and extremely bitter travesty of Canons, under the title of "Timon's Villa":— " At Timon's Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry...grand, of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a drought As brings all Brobdingnag before... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 438 pages
...parkland, but remains in Pope's satire as typical of the vanity of expense and the abuse of taste : At Timon's Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1916 - 160 pages
...Sense, Good-humour, and a Poet. Extract from Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington Titnon's Villa At Timon's Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, 'What sums are thrown away !' 100 So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness,... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - 1922 - 566 pages
...particularly in Pope was the epistle describing the Duke of Chandos's house, the poem which begins : ' At Timon's villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out what sums are thrown away.' And there, straight in front of me, was the Priory, Lady Waldegrave's grandiose country-house. I heard... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. 75 Timon's Villa A? Timoifs Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, ' What...grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Tlmon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your... | |
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At Timon's villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out,' What sums are thrown away!' 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.... 
