 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 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...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the' imprisun'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal tlow'rs ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 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...; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the' imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs ; To steal from rainbows,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, NoL a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rnde a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers;... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...actions guide: Of these the chief the cure of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, tho' U-ss glorious care ; To nave the powder frura too rude a gale, Nor let tlie imp; ison'd essences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...guide : Of those the chief the care of nations own, And guard u it h arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor lot th' iiiiprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the venial flowers ; To steal from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...puidc; 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 pleasing, though less glorious carr; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd e-wences exhale ; To draw fresh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 90 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 flow'rs; 95 To steal from rainbows... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 422 pages
...then, alluding to parliament, quoted the following passage from Pope's Rape of the Lock : " Our humble province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing,...save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale." He concluded by moving, that the bill relative to a tax on perfumery,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...lay three g&rters || Haifa pair of glovesj 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 - 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... | |
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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... 
