The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,T. Bensley, 1798 - 79 Seiten |
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... India's glowing gems unlocks , And all Arabia breathes from yonder box . The tortoise here and elephant unite , Transform'd to combs , the speckled , and the white . Here files of pins extend their shining rows , Puffs 11.
... India's glowing gems unlocks , And all Arabia breathes from yonder box . The tortoise here and elephant unite , Transform'd to combs , the speckled , and the white . Here files of pins extend their shining rows , Puffs 11.
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An Heroi-comical Poem, Alexander Pope. Here files of pins extend their shining rows , Puffs , powders , patches , bibles , billet - doux . Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her ...
An Heroi-comical Poem, Alexander Pope. Here files of pins extend their shining rows , Puffs , powders , patches , bibles , billet - doux . Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her ...
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... curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains , And mighty hearts are held in slender chains . With hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines 16.
... curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains , And mighty hearts are held in slender chains . With hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines 16.
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... shining train , Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain . The skilful nymph reviews her force with care : ' Let Spades be trumps ! ' she said , and trumps they were . Now move to war her sable Matadores , In show like leaders of the ...
... shining train , Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain . The skilful nymph reviews her force with care : ' Let Spades be trumps ! ' she said , and trumps they were . Now move to war her sable Matadores , In show like leaders of the ...
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... shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide , While China's earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste , And frequent ...
... shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide , While China's earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste , And frequent ...
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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...