And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 85by Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 356 pages
...which Arabella Fermor had set so much store, than the concludinglines of the ' Eape of the Lock.' ' Not all the tresses that fair head can boast Shall...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. ' II. CHAPTER IX. THE LETTEB-WEITEBS OP SOCIETY : LOBD CHESTEBFIELD ; HIS LETTERS. — THOSE OP LADY... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 1 A ridiculous star-gazer, and maker of almanacks. ELOISA TO ABELARDARGUMENT. ABELARD and Eloisa flourished... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 * Partridge was an almanac-maker, — the Francis Mobre of his day. He predicted the downfall of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...mourn thy ravish'd Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses- that fair heads can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost....fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites... | |
| Bible - 1867 - 820 pages
...closing lines of Pope's Rape of the Lock: " Not all the tresses that fair head can boast Shall raise such envy as the lock you lost ; For, after all the...die ; When those fair suns shall set, as set they most, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, — This lock the muse shall consecrate to fame,... | |
| Bible - 1867 - 824 pages
...When, after millions slain, yourself shall die ; When those fair suns shall set, as set they mast, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, — This...fame, And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name." Not Belinda's name is inscribed amidst the stars, but the name of Belinda's poet, Alexander Pope. Homer,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Rome. Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...fame, And "midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 140 _ rery year never lail'd to predi the Pope, and the King of France, then at war CANTO I. Ver. 54,... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair heads can boast Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost....fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. JOHN GAY. John Gay was born in 1688. It does not appear that he had the advantage of a classical education.... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, 189 Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost. For after...must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, 190 This lock the muse shall consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. ELEGY... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head oan boast, Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost....fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 1 ' Partridge : ' see Pope's and Swift's Miscellanies. WINDSOR-FOREST.1 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE... | |
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