...laughter ia to make a person pass at once from an elevated to a common or degrading action, as in Pope " Here thou great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes lee." Or in the remonstrance to a lady — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did...

...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"...

...Close by those meads, forever crowned with flowers, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which...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...

...pride surveys his rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighboring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft...Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. With so great a master of language, it is a little dangerous to insist on the exact place where the...

...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...

...by those meads, for ever crowned with flowers, 1 Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which...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...

...elements of the incipient commercial culture. Queen Anne is simply another Belinda, and the famous zeugma "Here Thou, Great Anna! whom three Realms obey, / Dost sometimes Counsel take - and sometimes Tea"(m, 7-8) expressly refers to the British Isles and those "realms beyond 23 Geoffrey Tillotson,...