...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...

...its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom. Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey 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...

...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...

...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,...

...(97): (97) a) Nay oft in Dreams, Invention we bestow, To change a Flounce or add a Furbelow b) I lere thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take — and sometimes Tea. (Pope 1714) 632 The age of the heroic couplet, from its re-founding to its decline, is 1585—1785;...

...The Rape of the Lock during the eighteenth century included his well-known reference to Queen Anne: Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take and sometimes Tea. (Pope, 1965:96) 293 Mrs. Gaskell, during the nineteenth century, calls one of the chapters in her novel...

...... where it is apparent that he pronounced join with the centralized diphthong [si]. Again he writes Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes Tea. It is demonstrable that he pronounced tea as tay. Elsewhere he rhymes full - rule; give - believe;...

...verb) is used with two different words or phrases (usually direct objects), as in Alexander Pope's 'Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,/ Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes Tea.' Hypallage occurs when a word is made to refer to some word other than the one it logically qualifies,...

...Teufelsdrockh, of Sartor Resartus. 27.10. tea-tables, council-tables: See Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (1714): "Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea" (3.7-8). 27.15-16. Time and all Eternity, is the constant Speaker and Doer of Truth: Borrowing in part...