The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,T. Bensley, 1798 - 79 страница |
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... sensible commend , Yet still preserve the province of the friend ; What life , what vigour , must the lines require ! What music tune them , what affection fire ! b O might thy genius in my bosom shine , Thou xvii ΤΟ ...
... sensible commend , Yet still preserve the province of the friend ; What life , what vigour , must the lines require ! What music tune them , what affection fire ! b O might thy genius in my bosom shine , Thou xvii ΤΟ ...
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... lines ! Still , as I read , I feel my bosom beat , And rise in raptures by another's heat . Thus in the wood , when summer dress'd the days , While Windsor lent us tuneful hours of ease , Our ears the lark , the thrush , the turtle xxi.
... lines ! Still , as I read , I feel my bosom beat , And rise in raptures by another's heat . Thus in the wood , when summer dress'd the days , While Windsor lent us tuneful hours of ease , Our ears the lark , the thrush , the turtle xxi.
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... , 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.
... , 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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... lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . Th ' advent'rous Baron the bright locks admir'd ; He saw , he wish'd , and to the prize aspir'd . Resolv'd to ...
... lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . Th ' advent'rous Baron the bright locks admir'd ; He saw , he wish'd , and to the prize aspir'd . Resolv'd to ...
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... sylphs , of special note , We trust th ' important charge , the petticoat : Oft have we known that seven - fold fence to fail , Though stiff with hoops and arm'd with ribs of whale ; Form a strong line about the silver bound , And 22.
... sylphs , of special note , We trust th ' important charge , the petticoat : Oft have we known that seven - fold fence to fail , Though stiff with hoops and arm'd with ribs of whale ; Form a strong line about the silver bound , And 22.
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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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Страница xxvii - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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...
Страница 10 - The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
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