 | John Watkins - 1817 - 374 pages
...speech, with applying these lines, from Pope's Rape of the Lock, to the House of Commons : *'Our humble province is to tend the fair,, Not a less pleasing,...:. To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the imprison'd essences exhale." L Great part of this session was employed in discussing the charges... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...lay three garters || half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies || of his former loves. Our humble province || is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing || though less glorious care. And hew triumphal arches || to the ground. These accents make different impressions on the mind, which... | |
 | John Watkins - 1818 - 508 pages
...speech, with applying these lines, from Pope's Rape of the Lock, to the House of Commons : " Our humble province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...: To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the imprison'd essences exhale." Great part of this session was employed in discussing the charges... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...by delicacy of taste to employ the first order preferably to the others ? Second order. Our humble province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let tli' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...divine the British throne. ' Oor homhler province is to tend the fair, Nut a less pleasing, though leaa glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the imprison* d essences exhale ; To draw fresh coloors from the vernal llowers , To steal from rainhows,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...guide I Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...with applying to the House of Commons the following lines from Pope's Rape of the Lock : " Our humble province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the imprison'd essences exhale." JEWEL, BISHOP OF SALISBURY. This prelate was so remarkable for his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...understood as a compliment. He inOur humble province is to tend the Fair, 91 Not a less pleasing, tho' less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs ; 95 To steal from Rainbows... | |
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Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to... 
