 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pages
...Pope foretells the transformation of the proud and formal domain into pasture and farm-land : — " Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre ; Deep harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land." These lines were sadly... | |
 | Percy Melville Thornton - 1885 - 534 pages
...for which John Brydges' life at Canons might have sunk into oblivion, we read the following lines:— Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre. Deep harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. A fulfilled prophecy... | |
 | 1887 - 456 pages
...of wealth returning again to a state of nature, would have been literally realized :— Another ago shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre; Deep harvest bury all thy prido has planned, And laughing Ceres reassume tho land. Still more melancholy... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1907 - 354 pages
...better. It is strange that the prophecy with which Pope concluded has been exactly fulfilled : — "Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre ; Deep harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land." The first Duke of Chandos... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 438 pages
...Villa, denied too, ingenuously, that Canons was the original he described, went on to prophesy that Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. The forecast applied... | |
 | Osbert Sitwell - 1925 - 362 pages
...the trees have been cut, and in most of them the fountains have ceased playing for ever : " An other age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre." At first the Germans, distrusting their own power, made use of foreign artists and workmen. In this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...cloth'd, the Hungry fed ; Health to himself, and to his Infants bread 170 His charitable Vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, 175 And laughing Ceres reassume the land. Who then shall grace,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1929 - 526 pages
...his hard Heart denies, His charitable Vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden Ear Embrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all his pride has planned, 175 And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. Who then shall grace, or who improve the Soil ?... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...on the future any actual restoration of the terms and arrangements of patriarchal noblesse oblige: Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all [that] pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. (173-6) In Bathurst, the evident contradictions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...his infants bread 170 The labourer bears: what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope,...the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. Who then shall grace, or who improve the soil? Who plants... | |
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