 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
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...magnificence! You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And ]x>mpous 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-gale ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 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...make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state, '.I'm M arts of triumph to a garden-gale ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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 half the land with imitating fools ; Whose random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty, many blunders make ; Load some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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 NOTES. ter, who raised him to an architect, without any genius in the art ; and after... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 300 pages
...finest are not the truly wellbred. Pope has satirized this abuse of• ornament: " Load some vain chureh with old theatric state Turn arcs of triumph to a...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 - 1848 - 642 pages
...imitating fools ; Whose random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one heauty, many hlunders make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of Triumph to a garden gate ; 30 Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole eked with ends of wall; Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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...with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden-gate ; Reverse your ornaments ; and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole eked with ends of... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall, my lord, your just, your nohle iversal frame Thus wondrous fair ! Thyself how wondrous...To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest arts of triumph to a garden-gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole... | |
 | George Godwin - 1853 - 246 pages
..."Yet shall (my lord) your just and noble rules Fill half the land with imitating fools ; WALPOLE. 201 Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And...Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patched dog-hole eked with ends of wall ; Then clasp four slices of pilaster on't, — That, laced... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...ARCADE— ARCH. THE nations of the field and wood Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand. — Pope. Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn...Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patched dog-hole eked with ends of wall. ****** Or call the winds through long arcades to roar, Proud... | |
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