...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...

...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines,1 Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the...

...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...Soul : And HE, whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines4, Now forms my Quincunx, and now ranks my Vines, 130 Or tames the Genius of the stubborn plain,...

...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,...

...command ; Know all the distant din that world can keep, Eolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...the flow of soul ; And he, whose lightning pierc'd the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the stubborn...

...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...reason and the flow of soul. And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines, Or tames the genius of the...

...keep Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but sooths my Sleep. There, my Retreat the best Companions grace, 125 Chiefs, out of War, and Statesmen, out of Place. There...And He, whose Lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines, to have written a twenty-five act play there. Budgeli, who was to commit suicide in 1737, was a m1scellaneous...

...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...