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" Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. "
Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story - Page 402
by Bernard Burke - 1849
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The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered

Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 308 pages
...metamorphosis, the change brought about by the irresistible energies of Nature herself, who works changes: Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope,...has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. (Epistle to Burlington, lines 1 73-6) What might seem to be a degenerative process, a sad change in...
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...the conversion of the inauthentic ostentation of bad ownership into the projects of pleasured profit. Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope,...has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. Notice also how the reference to Ceres contains within it the memory — but not the mention — of...
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Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...on the future any actual restoration of the terms and arrangements of patriarchal noblesse oblige: Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all [that] pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. (173-6) In Bathurst, the evident contradictions...
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Lord Burlington: Art, Architecture and Life

Toby Barnard, Jane Clark - Architecture - 1995 - 364 pages
...works, true Aeneases, the Stuarts of the prophecy of lines 173-76 in the Epistle: Another age shall sec the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre,...has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. Fertility, rather than Timon's waste, is, as I have argued elsewhere, a central image of Stuart restoration:...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...his infants bread 170 The labourer bears: what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope,...the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. Who then shall grace, or who improve the soil? Who plants...
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Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

Emerson R. Marks - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 428 pages
...as in the exquisite lines from Pope's "To Burlington": Another age shall see the golden Ear Km brown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres reassume the land. The association of propriety and elegance is explicit...
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Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany

Wim Tigges - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 500 pages
...to his Infants bread The Lab'rer bears: What his hard Heart denies, His charitable Vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope,...pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land.5 This time the moment of epiphany, stimulated by the poet's anger at the waste of the ostentatious...
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Pope, Print, and Meaning

J. McLaverty - Design - 2001 - 284 pages
...Butlington, where a historical perspective had denied the importance of ownership by any single individual: Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope,...Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all his pride has plann'd . . . (i73-5l Questioning the very notion of property further subjects great landlords to the possibility...
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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

Pat Rogers - Literary Criticism - 2007
...by Pope by which Timon's corrupt power can be overborne, except by some undefined process of Nature. Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope,...on the Parterre, Deep Harvests bury all his pride had plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. (Burlington, 173-6) Past and future are imaginatively...
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Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth ...

Erik Bond - History - 2007 - 306 pages
...different future. Pope continues to employ Horace's question-and-answer motif during this prophecy: Another age shall see the golden Ear Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre, Deep Harvest bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land. Who then shall grace,...
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