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... wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our beings were of old , And once enclos'd in woman's beauteous mould ; Thence ...
... wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our beings were of old , And once enclos'd in woman's beauteous mould ; Thence ...
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... wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light , Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glitt'ring textures of the ...
... wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light , Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glitt'ring textures of the ...
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... wings in vain ; Or alum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a rivel'd flow'r : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill , In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow , And ...
... wings in vain ; Or alum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a rivel'd flow'r : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill , In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow , And ...
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... 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 twitch'd the diamond in her ear ; 35.
... 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 twitch'd the diamond in her ear ; 35.
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... . Canto . IV . The Holloway feulp ? The gnonce rejoicing bears her gifts away . Spreads his black wings , and slowly mounts to day . Publifhd Nov 1798 by FI - Du Roveray . London THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . CANTO IV . BUT Canto. IV. ...
... . Canto . IV . The Holloway feulp ? The gnonce rejoicing bears her gifts away . Spreads his black wings , and slowly mounts to day . Publifhd Nov 1798 by FI - Du Roveray . London THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . CANTO IV . BUT Canto. IV. ...
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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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Page 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.
Page xxvii - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 10 - The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...