The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 pages |
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... fair sex have read it for one by mistake . According to these gentlemen , the four elements are inhabited by spirits which they call sylphs , gnomes , nymphs , and salamanders . The gnomes , or demons of earth , delight in mis- chief ...
... fair sex have read it for one by mistake . According to these gentlemen , the four elements are inhabited by spirits which they call sylphs , gnomes , nymphs , and salamanders . The gnomes , or demons of earth , delight in mis- chief ...
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... fair and innocent shall still believe . Know , then , unnumbered spirits round thee fly , The light militia 2 of the lower sky : These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , 3 and hover round the ring.4 Think what ...
... fair and innocent shall still believe . Know , then , unnumbered spirits round thee fly , The light militia 2 of the lower sky : These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , 3 and hover round the ring.4 Think what ...
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... fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy sylphs surround ...
... fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy sylphs surround ...
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... Fair nymphs and well - dressed youths around her shone , 5 But every eye was fixed on her alone . On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , Which Jews might kiss , and infidels adore . Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose ...
... Fair nymphs and well - dressed youths around her shone , 5 But every eye was fixed on her alone . On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , Which Jews might kiss , and infidels adore . Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose ...
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... Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , 25 And beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron 3 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . 30 Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By ...
... Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , 25 And beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron 3 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . 30 Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By ...
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Æneid aërial alike angels beast beau beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke BRANDER MATTHEWS breath Bryant's translation Cæsar called CANTO Catiline cents 20 cents charms creatures death Dunciad e'er earth Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n expression eyes fair fame fate fool forever glory gnome grace hair happiness head heart Heaven heroes Homer's Iliad honor human Iliad insect wings instinct John Caryll Julius Cæsar king knave laws Learn lock Lord man's mankind mind moral moving toyshop Nature Nature's never Note nymph o'er pain passions PATTISON perfect pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's pride Queen Rape reason rime rise satire Self-love sense Sir George Brown Sir Plume skies smiling train soul spirit Swift sylphs Thalestris thee things thou trembling Twickenham verse vice virtue walked with beast WARBURTON weak whole wings wise ΙΟ
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Page 35 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 71 - The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 58 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 68 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As...
Page 39 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On 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 cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 58 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 79 - Fools ! Who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Page 68 - Suns run lawless through the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurled, Being on Being wrecked, and world on world; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God.
Page 30 - 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 amorous sighs to raise the fire.
Page 98 - Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.