 Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn: Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 94by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...the joint inhabitants of this globe, are designed to be joint sharers with us of its blessings : " Has God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy, 'thy pastime, thy attire, thy food 1 Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For Mm as kindly spreads the flow'ry lawn." Epistle iii.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...attire, thy food? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spreads the flow'ry lawn. 30 Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note. The... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...beast : All served, all serving; nothing stands alone ; Tim chain holds on, and where it ends unknown. Has God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy...sings ? — Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? — Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...beast; All serv'd, all serving : nothing stands alone ; The ehain holds on, and where it ends, unknown. .G spreads the flowery lawn : Is it for thee the lark aseends and sings ? Joy tunes his voiee, joy elevates... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...beast; All serv'd, all serving: nothing stands alone; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown. Has God, thou fool! work'd solely for thy good, Thy...thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spreads the flowery lawn. 30 Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures... | |
 | William Morton Payne - American essays - 1904 - 352 pages
...of any thing else doing so ? Nor is elevates a fitting term in the following connection: — " It is for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings." And of a piece with it, or worse, — " Or under southern skies exalt their sails." Exalt a... | |
 | Ethics - 1907 - 398 pages
...not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare." _ Old Fashioned 0. WiBdom in Verse "Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flowry lawn. Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.... | |
 | Alexander Lyons - Ethics - 1909 - 58 pages
...subservient to us instead of ourselves to it. This Pope castigates by asking: "Has God, thou fool ! worked solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food?" (Ibid., I II.) It is true that "Man, like the generous vine, supported lives" (Ibid.), but to think... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...beast; All serv'd, all serving: nothing stands alone; The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown. Has God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy...feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.... | |
 | Carlos de Mesquita - English literature - 1911 - 284 pages
...die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. 36 Hás God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food ? Know, nature's children ali divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch, warm'da bear. While man... | |
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