 Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 65von Alexander Pope - 1873 - 600 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 Seiten
...mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryl,1 muse ! is due : This, e'en Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject,...unexplor'd, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? In tasks so bold can little men engage, And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage ? Sol through... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing.— This verse to Caryl, Muse ! is due : This, even Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject,...the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays." Shake off the dew, and bruise the springing blades. And let be far aloof from the rich cribs, Lizards,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryll,1 Muse ! is due : This, even Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject,...compel A well-bred lord t' assault a gentle belle ? Oh, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord 1 10 1 ' Caryll... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryll,1 Muse ! is due : This, even Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject,...compel A well-bred lord t' assault a gentle belle ? Oh, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? . 10 1 ' Caryll... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to...strange motive, goddess ! could compel A well-bred lord to assault a gentle belle ? O, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. — This verse to Caryl, muse ! is due ; This ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to...unexplor'd, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? In tasks so bold can little men engage ? And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage ?— Not with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 Seiten
...mighty contests rise from trivial things, I ting ; — this verse to Caryl, Muse ! is clue : This e'en Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject,...strange motive, goddess ! could compel A well-bred lord to assault a gentle belle ? O say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1922 - 784 Seiten
...am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. This verse to Caryl, Muse ! is due : This ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to...the praise, If She inspire, and He approve my lays.' What an ineptitude, when the slightness of the subject was the very opportunity of the poem ! Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuls. — 3/ort CANTO FIRST. Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she...strange motive, goddess ! could compel A well-bred lord to assault a gentle belle 1 O say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 Seiten
...succeeding him. The country ought to raise a monument in Mayfair, for the act which produced Pope's poem. ' Say what strange motive, Goddess, could compel A well-bred...assault a gentle belle ? O say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ? In tasks so bold can little men engage ? And... | |
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