The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,T. Bensley, 1798 - 79 Seiten |
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... face , For life predestin'd to the gnomes ' embrace . These swell their prospects and exalt their pride , When offers are disdain'd , and love deny'd : Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their ...
... face , For life predestin'd to the gnomes ' embrace . These swell their prospects and exalt their pride , When offers are disdain'd , and love deny'd : Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their ...
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... face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy sylphs surround their darling care , These set the head , and those divide the hair , Some fold the sleeve , whilst others plait the gown ...
... face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy sylphs surround their darling care , These set the head , and those divide the hair , Some fold the sleeve , whilst others plait the gown ...
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... face , and you'll forget ' em all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourish'd two locks , which graceful hung behind In equal curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these ...
... face , and you'll forget ' em all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourish'd two locks , which graceful hung behind In equal curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these ...
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... face , And his refulgent Queen , with pow'rs combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest find . Clubs , Diamonds , Hearts , in wild disorder seen , With throngs promiscuous strew the level green . Thus when dispers'd a routed army runs ...
... face , And his refulgent Queen , with pow'rs combin'd Of broken troops an easy conquest find . Clubs , Diamonds , Hearts , in wild disorder seen , With throngs promiscuous strew the level green . Thus when dispers'd a routed army runs ...
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... face of light , Down to the central earth , his proper scene , Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen . Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome , And in a vapour reach'd the dismal dome . No cheerful breeze this sullen region ...
... face of light , Down to the central earth , his proper scene , Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen . Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome , And in a vapour reach'd the dismal dome . No cheerful breeze this sullen region ...
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aërial Afculp airy ancient Ariel arms beau beauty beaux behold Belinda billet-doux bodkin bosom breast breath bright CANTO III Caryl caus'd charms Clarissa conceal'd crown'd cry'd dæmons dispers'd E'en e'er earth edition Elves ev'ry eyes fair head fate feulp FI-Du Roveray fierce FIVE CANTOS flow'rs forfex wide frolic glitt'ring Graces stand hair half hand heart Heav'n heav'nly HEROI-COMICAL POEM Homer honour humour Iliad ladies lap-dogs laughs Lesbia lines added lock London Lord Petre machinery maid Matadore mortal nymph o'er their head ombre OVID Parnell poet Pope pow'r pray'rs pride prize Pyxide quæ Queen rage RAPE repair rising sacred shining sighs silver sing Sir Plume skies snuff-box soft soul spirits Spleen spread sprites stand in sight Sylphs and Gnomes tears Thalestris thee thou Thrice toilet tow'rs trembling tresses trumps Twas Umbriel Unnumber'd verse vial VIRG Virgil wings wits wretched written in less
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Seite 8 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face and you'll forget 'em all.
Seite xxvii - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green...
Seite 26 - Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near. Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought The close recesses of the virgin's thought; As on the nosegay in her breast reclin'd, He watch'd th...
Seite 24 - Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain.
Seite 48 - Why bows the side-box from its inmost rows ? How vain are all these glories, all our pains, Unless good sense preserve what beauty gains ; That men may say, when we the front- box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face...
Seite 49 - Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas! frail beauty must decay...
Seite 10 - The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Seite 34 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Seite xxxi - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I ranged the crystal wilds of air, In the clear Mirror of thy ruling Star I saw, alas! some dread...
Seite 24 - In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek...