 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 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' impri-on'd essences exhale; Todraw fresh colours from the vernal llow'rs; 95 To steal from rainbows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...guide: ( Of these the chief the care of notions own, And guard with arms divine the British throne" Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs; To steal from rainbows ere they drop in show'rs A. brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 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 flow'rs; To steal from rainbows ere... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 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 flow'rs; To steal from rainbows ere... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...confining his sense to the couplet, and of extending it farther, in compositions of a different species, " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, " Not a...less glorious care ; *' To save the powder from too rough a gale, " Nor let th'imprison'd essences exhale ; " To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...POPE, in the following passage, has excelled any thing in Shakespeare, or perhaps in any other author. Our humbler province is to tend the fair; Not a less...though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rough a gale, Nor let th5 imprison'd essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs,... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...fancied ; and never were guardian spirits better adapted to their charge than his Sylphs. It is theirs 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 ; To steal from rainbows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British tbrone. 90 " Our humhler 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; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs; 05 To steal from rainhows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arras divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, thongh less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let the' imprison'd essences... | |
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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... 
