 | 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...though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' impri-on'd essences exhale; Todraw fresh colours from the vernal llow'rs;... | |
 | 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...though less glorious care; 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;... | |
 | 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...though less glorious care; 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;... | |
 | 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...though less glorious care ; 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...rain. But with admirable appropriation he proceeds, addressing himself exclusively to the Sylphs : Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprisoned essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...kindly rain. But with admirable appropriation he proceeds, addressing himself exclusively to the Sylphs: Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less...though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprisoned essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers... | |
 | 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...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, 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...though less glorious care; 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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...though less glorious care ; 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... | |
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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... 
