 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...pride : What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread — • place, grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace ; Th' embroider'd king who shows but half... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 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... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...state unwieldy spread ; That lung behind he trails his pnmpous robe, And, of all monarchs, 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 powers combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
