Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... Transform'd to combs , the speckled and the white Ilere 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 ...
... Transform'd to combs , the speckled and the white Ilere 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 ...
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ancient appear arms bear beauty better cause character charms court critics death divine Dulness e'en equal eyes face fair fall fame fate fire fool genius give gods grace hand happy head hear heart Heaven hero honour kind king laws learned leave less light live look lord lost mean mind muse nature never night o'er once passion person plain play pleased pleasure poem poet poor Pope praise pride rage raise reason REMARKS rest rise round rules satire sense shade shine sing soft soul spread sure tears tell thee things thou thought true truth turn verse virtue whole wings wise write youth
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Страница 4 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Страница 9 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Страница 12 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire.