 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...little ornaments as Pyramids of darkgreen, continually repeated, not unlike a Funeral procession [P]. At Timon's Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, ‘What sums are thrown away!' xoo So proud, so grand, of that stupendous air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness, with... | |
 | Kenneth L. Deutsch, Walter Soffer - 1987 - 318 pages
...visit to the estate of a tasteless nouveau riche who is assigned the name of the misanthropic Timon: 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 Brobdingnag before... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis - 1988 - 420 pages
...Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all thy Pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the Land. At Timorìs Villa let us pass a Day, Where all cry out, 'What...grand, of that stupendous Air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timón, dwells in such a Draught As brings all Brobdignag before... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NOEC; OAEL-1; OxBoLi Moral Essays: Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 100 At Timon's villalet us pass a day, Where all cry out, What sums are thrown away!' 101 Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! 102 My Lord advances with majestic mien, Smit with the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 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!' 100 So proud, so grand, of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with... | |
 | Richard Morgan Kain - 1972 - 114 pages
...Timon's villa, reeking with false magnificence, is plain to see, regardless of whose estate was depicted: 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... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1891 - 1154 pages
...died at Canons, near Edgware, in 1714, Canons, the " Timons villa " of Pope's satire : " At Timons villa let us pass a day Where all cry out, ' What sums are thrown away 1 ' '• The glory, however, was of brief duration : by bodily suffering and petty annoyances amounting... | |
 | Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 562 pages
...Terraces desert their walls: [...] At Timon's [editor's note: the name of a noted misanthrope of Athens] Villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, 'What...grand, of that stupendous air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before... | |
 | Nicole Pohl - 2006 - 220 pages
...Burlington' (1731) which contrasts the Palladian edifice of Burlington with Timon's extravagant villa:30 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... | |
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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.... 
