 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...iii. 18. 824 First class of Imllrrous combinations and oppositions.— Examples of fanciful onuses . Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Nut louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, \Vhen husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last;... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...plate of iron; receives impression, and is wounded by the least occurrence. ginger. — Pope. TTIEN flash'd the living Lightning from her eyes, And screams...th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last; Or when rich china vessels, fall'n... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...her head. First he expands the glittering forfex wide To Inclose the lock ; then joins It to divide : The meeting points the sacred hair dissever. From the fair head for ever and for ever — Ver. 154. All that Is between was added afterwards. ' Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...her head. First he expands the glittering forfex wide To Inclose the lock ; men Joins It to divide : The meeting points the sacred hair dissever, From the fair head for ever and for ever.— Vrr. Ir4. All that is between was added afterwardi. ' Let wreaths of triumph now mj temples twine,... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1856 - 324 pages
...events ? Why? Because the hinges upon which life turns are among the minutest of things. CHAPTER XIV. " Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies.'' RAPE OF THE LOCK. IN the meantime, Armand Du Chastel had returned to London,... | |
 | 1859 - 316 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, aud cut the sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again), The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! " In the meantime a Gnome named Umbriel repairs to the Cave of Spleen, and implores its queen to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...the shear*, and cut the sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again) ; The meeting point* the sacred hair dissever From the fair head FOR EVER...lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again;} The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the...lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies ; Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven : re cart, When husbands, or when lapdogs,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) ; The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! Then flashed the livid lightnings from her eyes, And screams of horror road the affrighted skies, Not louder... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...' ? The peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide, To enclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! These lines are indeed a miracle of artifice. The setting is not merely satirical ; it is comic,... | |
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T' inclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred... 
