...H ampton Court under circumstances suggested by the following lines in the Rape of the Lock : — " Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court." A more insipid place than a court it would be impossible to conceive, if " the pleasures of a court"...

...towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here them, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither...

...Elevation. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks. Rape of the Lock, Canto 2. Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Ibid., Canto 3. Happy the man, who void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...

...worlds but in high comic spirit: Here Britain's Statesmen of the Fall foredoom Of Foreign Tyrant's, and of Nymphs at home; Here Thou, Great Anna\ whom...obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take - and sometimes Tea. (Ill, 5-8) The trader and the politician are one, and the social reference is self-evident, as Defoe...

...towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; 10 In various talk the instructive hours they passed, Who gave a ball or paid the visit last; One speaks...

...lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must falL (2.105-10l Here, thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea Sooner let earth, air, sea, to Chaos fall, Men, monkeys, lap-dogs, parrots, perish all! (4.119-20l...

...point or draw attention to a falseness. The most famous example is from Pope's "Rape of the Lock": "Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, /Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea." The humor in the bathos is the fact that Anna is the Queen of England — she holds meetings in the...

...fingers, me thy lips, to kiss. Not surprisingly, then, the master of zeugma is Pope at his wittiest: Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Great Anna, queen of the...

...towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of...ANNA! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of...

...here may have influenced Pope's more famous syllepsis in The Rape of the Lock (1714; Canto 3. 7—8): Here Thou, Great Anna! whom three Realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take — and sometimes Tea. Eusden, adapting Sandys, succeeds at a comparable witticism in Book 10, when Venus rests on the ground...