 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...nor is there a man of genius among them who stands unconnected with our intellectual soveregnty. ' We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms.1 At the moment Pope was writing these lines, that silent operation of genius had commenced, which... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...had been intellectually enslaved by a foreign nation, ever since the return of the second Charles. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms. But as soon as the English people were recalled to a sense of the merits of their own elder writers,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...had been intellectually enslaved by a foreign nation, ever since the return of the second Charles. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms. But as soon as the English people were recalled to a sense of the merits of their own elder writers,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...had been intellectually enslaved by a foreign nation, ever since the return of the second Charles. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms. But as soon as the English people were recalled to a sense of the merits of their own elder writers,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1851 - 784 pages
...Bedford, found in . France a real, full-grown French literature, packed it up in their baggage-waggons, and brought it home to England. The passage from Horace,...conquered France, but felt our captive's charms— Her arls victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1851 - 788 pages
...Bedford, found in France a real, full-grown French literature, packed it up in their baggage-waggons, and brought it home to England. The passage from Horace,...the translation of Pope : — We conquered France, bat felt our captive's cliarras— Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1860 - 334 pages
...Roman literature would probably have taken a wider compass, and fulfilled a nobler destiny. • wagons, and brought it home to England. The passage from Horace,...stands thus in the translation of Pope : — " We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms; Britain... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...complexion of the English Muse cosmetics and artificial colour. The imitation was avowed and justified by Pope : — "We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumph'*! o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinement less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 386 pages
...and the Regent Bedford, found in France a real, full-grown French literature, packed it up in their baggage-wagons, and brought it home to England. The...above, stands thus in the translation of Pope :— " We conquer'd France, tut felt our captive's charms— Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms; Britain... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Literature - 1863 - 332 pages
...and th« Regent Bedford, found in France a real, full-grown French literature, packed it up in their baggage-wagons, and brought it home to England. The...stands thus in the translation of Pope : — " We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our amis ; Britain... | |
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We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow. 
