 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1863 - 320 páginas
...million is that which Pope describes as the worship of the fashionable crowd of his own time, when — "To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite." The received axiom of certain circles is, that anything may be done, but nothing must be talked about.... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...To raise the penius, and to mend the heart. POPE. — Prol. to ADDISON'S Cato, Line 1. MENTIONS. — To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. POPE. — Moral Essays, Epi. IV. to BURLINGTON, Line 140. MERCHANT.— The restless merchant, he that... | |
 | 440 páginas
...million is that which Pope describes as the worship of the fashionable crowd of his own time, when — ' To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.' ''-The received axiom of certain circles is, that anything may be -done, but nothing must be talked about.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Epistle iv. Line 43. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.* Epistle iv. Line 149. * In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed... | |
 | 1866 - 328 páginas
...Heaven : On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call : A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall ; The>rich... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerrej1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.2 1 Verrio (Antonio) painted many ceilings, &c., at Windsor, Hampton Court, &c., and Laguerre... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of VerricH" or Laguerre ;•)• On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.J 150 But, hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...n. 89i Eternal torments, baths of boiling sulphur, Vicissitude of fires, and then of frosts. Diyden. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite. Who never mentions hell to ears polite. Pope, ME iv. 149. And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes. Jvhnstn, London, 116. Hell is paved with... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 778 páginas
...cause he defends, an Episcopalian church in Ireland must exactly verify the satire of Pope : — " To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite." Catholic priests, however, who believe that at least one " human being," whom they can trust, He who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 páginas
...Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre,1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.3 1 Verrio (Antonio) painted many ceilings, &c., at Windsor, Hamptcn Court, &c., and Laguerre... | |
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye.... 
