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" Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The cave... "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 231
by Englishmen - 1836
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, 30 de, Through ; RIMARES. where Bartholomew fair was kept, whose «hows, machines, and dramatical entertainment*,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down ; Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, 33 The cave of Poverty and Poetry : Keen, hollow winds...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3

Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1837 - 334 pages
...recollection of every reader — "Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's harm, Great Cibber's brazen brainless brothers stand." Walpole does not...divine, " as this no ways altered the relationship." Flax, man, a more weighty authority in matters of sculpture, seems to have been somewhat infected with...
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Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Volume 2

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1839 - 338 pages
...Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed ^father's hand,...Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand." Internally, it was divided by two long galleries, one over the other. These galleries \vere separated...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...'•'. Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne' And laughs to think Monroe would take her down th the sevenfold orb withdrew : The conscious infant so, when fear ; One cell there is8, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The cave of Poverty and Poetry'. Keen hollow winds...
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Jack Sheppard, Part 2

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1840 - 394 pages
...Close to those walls 'where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand." Internally, it was divided by two long galleries, one over the other. These galleries were separated...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5

George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...Pope's lines, in his satire on Colley Gibber, will occur to the recollection of every reader — ' Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,...Gibber's brazen brainless brothers stand.' Walpole docs not quote them without lamenting the injustice and the peevish weakness of the poet. Colley himself...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand, One cell there is, concealed from vulgar eye, The cave of poverty and poetry : Keen hollow winds howl...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne ', And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, t god but enters yon forbidden field, Who yields assistance, or but wills to yield, Back to the sk One cell there is^, conceal M from vulgar eye, The cave of Poverty and Poetry7. KC-MI hollow winds...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...lo those walls where Folly holds her throne And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, 30 When: o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; KKJIAUKS. design of the pool. Hence it in tli.it s»ome have romul'iined lie chooses too mean ;i...
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