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" And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd, Each silver Vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd in white, the Nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the Cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly Image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes... "
The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 45
by George Campbell - 1801
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...read, But all the vision vanished from thy head. 120 And now, unveiled, the toilet stands displayed, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd...nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heaV'nly image in the glass appears, 125 To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; •Th'...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...read, But all the vision vanished from thy head. 120 And now, unveiled, the toilet stands displayed, 300 My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank ; Sure 1 had drunken in my uneover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, 125 To that she bends, to that...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, rolled t be c;5 heav'nly image in the glass appears; To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears. Th' inferior priestess,...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ...

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...and ardours were no sooner read, 119 But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, nnveil'd, ruiu'd choirs where late robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic powers. A heav'uly image...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...Billet-doux; Wounds, Charms, and Ardors were no sooner read, But all the Vision vanish'd from thy head. I20 And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd, Each...Nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the Cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; Th' inferior...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780

Sir Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1916 - 438 pages
...billet-doux ; Wounds, charms, and ardours were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover' d, the cosmetic powers. :n I A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780

Sir Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1916 - 438 pages
...And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display 'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, roh'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic powers. A beav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she beruls, tn that her eyes she rears ; Th' inferior...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...billet-doux ; Wounds, charms, and ardours were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover' d, the cosmetic powers. Ill I 114 POPE ' CHAP. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that...
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English Poems: From the College Entrance Requirements in English

Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...read, 120 But all the vision vanish 'd from thy head. And now, unveiPd, the toilet stands display 'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover 'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. 125 A heav'nly image in the glass appears; To that she bends, to that...
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Cleanth Brooks, Paul Rand - Literary Criticism - 1947 - 328 pages
...makes his Heroine the chief Priestess, then the Goddess herself." The lines in question run as follows: First, rob'd in White, the Nymph intent adores With Head uncover'd, the Cosmetic Pow'rs. A heai/nly Image in the Glass appears, To that she bends, to that her Eyes she rears. ... It...
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