The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 pages |
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... beauty of Belinda , the details of her toilet , her troops of admirers , are all set forth with unrivaled grace and fascination , and all bear the impress of vanity and vexation . Nothing can exceed the art with which the satire is ...
... beauty of Belinda , the details of her toilet , her troops of admirers , are all set forth with unrivaled grace and fascination , and all bear the impress of vanity and vexation . Nothing can exceed the art with which the satire is ...
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... beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you have done . But let its for- tune be what it will , mine is happy ...
... beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you have done . But let its for- tune be what it will , mine is happy ...
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... beauty spots ' had its origin in the necessity which a reigning belle at court had for concealing a blemish on her face ; but the chief use was from a foolish notion that beauty of complexion was heightened by contrast of color ...
... beauty spots ' had its origin in the necessity which a reigning belle at court had for concealing a blemish on her face ; but the chief use was from a foolish notion that beauty of complexion was heightened by contrast of color ...
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... beauty puts on all its arms ; The 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 ...
... beauty puts on all its arms ; The 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 ...
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... beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron3 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . 30 Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when ...
... beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron3 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . 30 Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when ...
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Æneid aërial alike Alluding angels beast beau beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke breath Bryant's translation Cæsar called CANTO Catiline charms creatures death Dunciad e'er earth Empedocles 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 king knave laws Learn lock Lord man's mankind mind moral moving toyshop Nature Nature's never Note nymph o'er pain Paradise Lost passions PATTISON perfect pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's pride Queen Rape reason rise satire Self-love sense Sir George Brown Sir Plume skies smiling train soul spirit spread Swift sylphs taste taught Thalestris thee things thou trembling Twickenham verse vice virtue walked with beast WARBURTON weak whole wings wise
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Page 29 - 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.
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 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 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.
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 63 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My foot-stool Earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 93 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 76 - Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength: So, cast and mingled with his very frame, The Mind's disease, its ruling Passion came; Each vital humour which should feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in soul.
Page 40 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear; Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near.