 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...barb'rous pride : What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The Baron now his diamonds pours apace ; Th' embroidered King who shows but half... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1911 - 996 pages
...barbarous pride ; What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? Which reminds us that these last two lines were amusingly but somewhat invidiously... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 pages
...barb'rous pride. What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread, 36o That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The baron now his diamonds pours apace ; Th' embroider'd king who shows but half... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarch's, only grasps the globe? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th' embroider'd King who shows but half his face, And his refulgent Queen, with pow'rs combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...The highest card in the game of Loo is the knave of clubs, or sometimes the knave of the trump suit. That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace ; Th' embroider'd king who shows but half... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, , And, of all monarch's, only grasps the globe? £ " The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th' embroider'd King who shows but half his face, And his refulgent Queen, with pow'rs combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...barbarous pride : What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace ; Th' embroider'd King who shows but half... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...barbarous pride: What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th' embroidered King who shows but half... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1897 - 90 pages
...barb'rous pride : 70 What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? And his refulgent Queeu, with, pow'rs combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest... | |
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Of broken Troops an easy Conquest find. Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild Disorder seen, With Throngs promiscuous strow the level Green. 
