 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...the Tower! How can I Pulteney, Chesterfield forget. While Roman spirit charms, and Attic wit? Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field ? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne The master of our passions, and his own ? Names, which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 408 pages
...amour of John Duke of Argyle," the hero of Sheriff-muir, and whom Pope so justly described as " Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield. And shake alike the senate and the field." 242 THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME.* BURNS. WHEN Januar winds were blawin* cauld, Unto the north... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1830 - 422 pages
...themselves to power, at the risk of throwing a kingdom into confusion. Pope has distinguished him as Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field. He was alike free from the ordinary vices of statesmen, falsehood, namely, and dissimulation ; and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Tower ! How can I Pulteney, Chesterfield, forget. While Roman spirit charms, and Attic wit 7 Argyle, 7 Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions, and his own 7 Names, which... | |
 | George Brunton, David Haig - 1832 - 614 pages
...succeeded by his brother. A short but great character is given him, by Pope, in the following couplet. Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field. 1704, November 7.— SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL OF CESSNOCK, AFTERWARDS EARL OF MARCHHONT, SON of Patrick... | |
 | John Burke - 1832 - 712 pages
...Not lew distinguished in the council than the field, the Duke is thus immortalized by Pope : — " ARGYLL, the state's whole thunder born to wield. And shake alike the senate and the field." His Grace m. first, Mary .daughter of John Brown, esq. but had no issue; he espoused, secondly, Jean... | |
 | George Brunton, David Haig - 1832 - 616 pages
...short but great character is given him, by Pope, in the following couplet. Argyll, the state's wholr thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field. 1704, November 7.— SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL OF CESSNOCK, AFTERWARDS EARL OF MAHCHMONT, SON of Patrick... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 pages
...immediately after making a spirited and patriotic effort in parliament to restore a constitution* " Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field." — Pope. t Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XI. p. 400. al militia, and to abolish arbitrary impressment... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 pages
...immediately after making a spirited and patriotic effort in parliament to restore a constitution* " Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field." — Pope. f Otentleman's Magazine, vol. XI. p. 400 al militia, and to abolish arbitrary impressment... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...Chesterfield. Waiton tells us, that he heard ' a lady of exquisite wit and judgment say of those two celebrated Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field ? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions, and his own ? Names, which... | |
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Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? 
