 | Children's literature - 1871 - 868 pages
...ATLEE. "Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto and but soothes my sleep. There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul." Answered also by " Demosthenes,*' JSH, Grace £. Gilfillan, and other correspondents. " Prut."... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. Bonk ii. Satire i. Line 76. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Book ii. Satire i. Line 127. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There my retreat the best companions grace, chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There he, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian lines, now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; or tames... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines/ Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...commend. Know, all- the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines,* Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines ; 130 Or tames the genius... | |
 | 1867 - 996 pages
..."(129).— "Know, all the distant din the world can Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep ; There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...reason and the flow of soul ; And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Gardes. Know, all the distant din the world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto and but soothes my sleep. There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope, Tinit. of Hor. II. 123. Thou who slialt stop where Thames' translucent ware Shines,... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...often gathered in delightful companionship; or, as the poet himself has better expressed it : — " There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul." It was with these philosophers, poets, and statesmen he spent those "noctes ceenaeque deum,"... | |
 | 1867 - 520 pages
...can keep Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep ; There my retreat the best companions prace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There...reason and the flow of soul ; And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the... | |
 | 1868 - 992 pages
...hospitality. " Know, all tho distant din that world can keep Rolls o'er my grotto and but soothes my sleep; There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason nnd the flow of soul ; And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian pines, Kow forms my quincunz, and... | |
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There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul... 
