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" Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort,... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 43
by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pages
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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...tower-. There stands a structure of majestic frame, [name. Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...connections from the same cause. " To whom the knight with comely grace Put off his hat, to put his case." " Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, • Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." " This general (Prince Eugene) is a great taker of snuff as well as of towns." * (4.) A seeming opposition...
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The Polytechnic Review and Magazine of Science, Literature and the ..., Volume 2

Arts - 1845 - 496 pages
...H ampton Court under circumstances suggested by the following lines in the Rape of the Lock : — " Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court." A more insipid place than a court it would be impossible to conceive, if " the pleasures of a court"...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom...awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th' instructive hours they past. Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here them, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...Elevation. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks. Rape of the Loch, Canto 2. Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Ibid. Canto 3. Happy the man, who void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...Elevation. * This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks. ltapc of the Lock, Canto 2. Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Ibid., Canto 3. Happy the man, who void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...Elevation. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks. Rape of the Lock, Canto 2. Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Ibid., Canto 3. Happy the man, who void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name ; Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom 5 Of foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home ; Here thou,...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One...
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nyropbs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms...Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awh ile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th' instructive hours they past. Who gave the ball,...
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