...the distant din that world can keep Rolls o'er my grotto and but soothes my sleep ; There my rcireat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war and statesmen out of place. There St .lohn mingles with my friendly howl The feast of reason and the flow of soul ; Ami he whoso lightning...

...keep, Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best Companions grace, 125 Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There...my friendly bowl The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul : And HE, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines4, Now forms my Quincunx, and now ranks...

...to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. Book ii. Satire i. Line 76. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Book ii. Satire \. Line 127. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming,...

...friend, The world beside may murmur or command ; Know all the distant din that world can keep, Eolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my...my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul ; And he, whose lightning pierc'd the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my...

...Addison in a poem made to order, but he whose genial companionship was eagerly commemorated by Pope: ' There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines,...

...Addison in a poem made to order, but he whose genial companionship was eagerly commemorated by Pope : ' There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines,...

...alludes to a line by Alexander Pope. In his "Imitations of Horace: Satires. Book II, Satire I," he says, "There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl/ The feast of reason and the flow of soul" (11. 12728). 604.22/588.24 COME WIPE YOUR NAME OFF THE SLATE Though this phrase is common...

...Triumvirate between your self and me," and he later celebrated Bolingbroke's congeniality and good sense: There ST. JOHN mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of Reason and the Flow of soul. In fact, the three men were stimulating and encouraging one another to mount what they hoped...

...(1733), celebrates withdrawal from "all the distant Din that World can keep" into his "grotto . . . / There, my Retreat the best Companions grace, / Chiefs,...friendly Bowl, / The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul" (lines 123-28). Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), was a controversial English...

...poetry, for reasons we shall explore, gives us generally the public image of the grotto's visitors: There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs,...my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. (IV, 11) But we have other testimony to its intricately private meaning for Pope. As a prime...