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
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 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 : soo To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines : To isles... | |
| Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 pages
...Italy— " To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Poun at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons; Or Tiber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian...abbots, purple as their wines: To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales: To lands of singing or of dancing slaves,... | |
| Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pages
...Italy — " 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'cl deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 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...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silvered vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing or of dancing slaves,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons ; Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts,...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 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...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...her silken sons ; Or Tylier, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts, Italian souls ; 800 To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales: To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...half the town. Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew ; Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too. To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines Where slumber...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing or of dancing slaves,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons ; Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts,...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing, or of dancing, slaves,... | |
| George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pages
...that Pope ever wrote.* He is describing a journey to various parts of Europe ; and of Italy he says— To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines Where slumber...abbots, purple as their wines : To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Diffusing languor in the panting gales : To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,... | |
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