The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,T. Bensley, 1798 - 79 страница |
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... play will be in danger of neglecting more im- portant interests . Those perhaps are faults ; but what are such faults to such excellence ! " To these observations , from the pen of a critic who may be accused of having exercised no ...
... play will be in danger of neglecting more im- portant interests . Those perhaps are faults ; but what are such faults to such excellence ! " To these observations , from the pen of a critic who may be accused of having exercised no ...
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... play the critic well . Ovid himself might wish to sing the dame Whom Windsor Forest sees a gliding stream ; On silver feet , with annual osier crown'd , She runs for ever through poetic ground . How flame the glories of Belinda's hair ...
... play the critic well . Ovid himself might wish to sing the dame Whom Windsor Forest sees a gliding stream ; On silver feet , with annual osier crown'd , She runs for ever through poetic ground . How flame the glories of Belinda's hair ...
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... Succeeding vanities she still regards , And , though she plays no more , o'erlooks the cards . Her joy in gilded chariots , when alive , And love of ombre , after death survive . For when the fair in all their pride expire , 6.
... Succeeding vanities she still regards , And , though she plays no more , o'erlooks the cards . Her joy in gilded chariots , when alive , And love of ombre , after death survive . For when the fair in all their pride expire , 6.
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... play , Belinda smil'd , and all the world was gay . All but the sylph - with careful thoughts opprest , Th ' impending wo sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ...
... play , Belinda smil'd , and all the world was gay . All but the sylph - with careful thoughts opprest , Th ' impending wo sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ...
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... play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high , Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : Some , less refin'd , beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart ...
... play , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high , Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : Some , less refin'd , beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart ...
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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 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.
Страница xxvii - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green...
Страница 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...
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.
Страница 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...
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...
Страница 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...