The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 páginas |
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... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; 90 To draw fresh colors from the vernal flowers ; 95 To steal from rainbows , ere they drop in showers , A ...
... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; 90 To draw fresh colors from the vernal flowers ; 95 To steal from rainbows , ere they drop in showers , A ...
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... The same idea is repeated in line 38 , but less delicately . 4 Cf. Homer's Iliad , Bryant's translation , XVIII . line 470 . Safe passed the gnome through this fantastic band , A CANTO IV . ] 43 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK .
... The same idea is repeated in line 38 , but less delicately . 4 Cf. Homer's Iliad , Bryant's translation , XVIII . line 470 . Safe passed the gnome through this fantastic band , A CANTO IV . ] 43 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK .
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... less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice more than advanced the theory of morality . If I could flatter myself that this Essay has any merit , it is in steering betwixt the ...
... less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice more than advanced the theory of morality . If I could flatter myself that this Essay has any merit , it is in steering betwixt the ...
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... less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields 2 above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? 3 Of systems possible , if ' tis confessed , That ...
... less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields 2 above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? 3 Of systems possible , if ' tis confessed , That ...
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... less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . 150 opinion of a majority of the fathers of ...
... less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . 150 opinion of a majority of the fathers of ...
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Æneid aërial alike Alluding angels beast beau beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke breath Bryant's translation Cæsar called CANTO Catiline charms creatures death Dunciad e'er earth Empedocles Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n expression eyes fair fame fate fool forever glory gnome grace hair happiness head heart Heaven heroes Homer's Iliad honor human Iliad insect wings instinct John Caryll king knave laws Learn lock Lord man's mankind mind moral moving toyshop Nature Nature's never Note nymph o'er pain Paradise Lost passions PATTISON perfect pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's pride Queen Rape reason rise satire Self-love sense Sir George Brown Sir Plume skies smiling train soul spirit spread Swift sylphs taste taught Thalestris thee things thou trembling Twickenham verse vice virtue walked with beast WARBURTON weak whole wings wise
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Página 29 - 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.
Página 68 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As...
Página 58 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Página 30 - But chiefly Love — to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.
Página 98 - Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Página 71 - The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Página 63 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My foot-stool Earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 93 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Página 76 - Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength: So, cast and mingled with his very frame, The Mind's disease, its ruling Passion came; Each vital humour which should feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in soul.
Página 40 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This 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 twitched the diamond in her ear; Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near.