 You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many...  The British Poets - Page 1351866Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my lord) your just, your noble rule* Fill hall' tin.' land with imitating fools; Who random drawings from...sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make ; After vcr. M, in the MS. POPF/S POEMS. Load some Vain ehtlrch with old theatric state, ' Turn arts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...profuse. And |X>mpous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my lord) your just, your ndble rules Fill half the land with imitating fools; Who random drawings from your sheets shall i A-, And of one beauty many blunders make ; VABIATION. After ver. 22. in the. MS. Must bishops, lawyers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules, 25 Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random...with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden-gate ; 30 Reverse VER. 18. Kiplsy] This man was a carpenter, employed by a first minister, who... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pages
...architecture, but because we wish lo see them separate, and not inconsistently combined together. " Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules. Fill half the laod with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were tilings of use. Yet sliall, arts of triumph to a garden-gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some jmtch'd dog-hole... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...magnificence ! You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules Fill...Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arts of triumph to a garden-gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...magnificence ! You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill...ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole eked with ends of wall, Then clap four slices of pilaster on't, That, laced with bits of rustic, makes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...stroke of Satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epistle on Taste: " Load some vain Church with old theatric state, " Turn Arcs of Triumph to a garden gate. W. He is said to have alluded to the entrance of Lord Peterborough's Lawn at Bevismount, near Southampton.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...stroke of Satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epistle on Taste : " Load some vain Church with old theatric state, " Turn Arcs of Triumph to a garden gate. W. He is said to have alluded to the entrance of Lord Peterborough's Lawn at Bevismount, near Southampton.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...mode in gardening, by a paper in the Guardian, No. 173, levelled against capricious operations of art, Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make ; NOTES. and every species of verdant sculpture and inverted nature; which paper abounds with wit as... | |
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