 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 45by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 pages
...at the corresponding scene in The Rape of the Lock: And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display 'd, 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'... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...decoration and worship of her own 'divine' beauty: And now, unveiled, the Toilet stands display 'd, I, 121 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, To that she bends, to that her Eyes she rears. The details... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...vermetel toonen! Kon zulke een woede ooit in een schoone boezem wonen! B. Canto l, 121-44 1. (original) 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... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 252 pages
...passages from two very different mockheroic poems. First, the following from The Rape of the Lock: 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... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 926 pages
...— the Latin verses, which I think I can repeat, as well as Pope's own. Pope's lines are : — '• 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. A heavenly Image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...the medium of the objects that will transform her appearance, that will 'create' her public image: 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... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...polished, but the mirror of Belinda does not quite attain to the lavishness of the mirror of Venus: 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... | |
 | Brian Boyd - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 316 pages
...on the scene and the language of Belinda's toilet in Pope's The Rape of the Lock: And now, unveiled, the Toilet stands display'd, Each Silver Vase in mystic...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... | |
 | John Strachan - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 212 pages
...English poetry is Pope's The Rape of the Lock which applies epic corv ventions to everyday circumstance: And now, unveil'd the Toilet stands display'd, Each...Nymph intent adores With Head uncover'd, the Cosmetic Pow'rs. See also mock epic. Burns stanza A sestet rhymed aaabab with lines 1, 2, 3 and 5 fouMtressed... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 812 pages
...hid metallic Ore, The work of Sulphur . . . (3) And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd, Kach Silver Vase in mystic Order laid. First, rob'd in...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 I Eyes she rears. Aside... | |
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