 Thou, only thou, directing all our way ! To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons ; Or Tiber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts, Italian souls : To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2481845Full view - About this book
 | John Barnard - 2003 - 562 pages
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 | Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 pages
...for this portrait by three couplets that, taken out of context, seem to celebrate and not to condemn: To happy Convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber...Abbots, purple as their wines: To Isles of fragrance, lilly-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales: To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...our way! To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons; Or Tiber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts, Italian souls: 300 To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines: To isles... | |
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 | Mavis Batey - 1999 - 544 pages
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 | Alexander Pope - 2003 - 308 pages
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 | Marty Roth - 2005 - 272 pages
...or night go by But it found him wine-soaked and wavering (Seward 9), while Alexander Pope referred to happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. (246) In his chapter on banquet literature, Mikhail Bakhtin cites the eleventhcentury "Treatise of... | |
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