The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 páginas |
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... earth , delight in mis- chief ; but the sylphs , whose habitation is in the air , are the best- conditioned creatures imaginable . For they say any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits , upon a ...
... earth , delight in mis- chief ; but the sylphs , whose habitation is in the air , are the best- conditioned creatures imaginable . For they say any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits , upon a ...
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... earth to roam . The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of air . бо 65 With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving toyshop of their heart ; " Where wigs with wigs , with sword ...
... earth to roam . The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of air . бо 65 With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving toyshop of their heart ; " Where wigs with wigs , with sword ...
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... earth o'er human race preside , Watch all their ways , and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own , 3 And guard with arms divine the British throne . Our humbler province is to tend the fair , Not a less ...
... earth o'er human race preside , Watch all their ways , and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own , 3 And guard with arms divine the British throne . Our humbler province is to tend the fair , Not a less ...
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... earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste , And frequent cups prolong the rich repast . Straight hover round the fair her airy band ; Some , as she sipped , the fuming liquor fanned , Some o'er her lap ...
... earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste , And frequent cups prolong the rich repast . Straight hover round the fair her airy band ; Some , as she sipped , the fuming liquor fanned , Some o'er her lap ...
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... earth , his proper scene , Repaired to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.2 Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome , And in a vapor reached the dismal dome . No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows , The dreaded east 3 is all 4 ...
... earth , his proper scene , Repaired to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.2 Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome , And in a vapor reached the dismal dome . No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows , The dreaded east 3 is all 4 ...
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Æneid aërial alike angels beast beau beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke BRANDER MATTHEWS breath Bryant's translation Cæsar called CANTO Catiline cents 20 cents charms creatures death Dunciad e'er earth 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 Julius Cæsar king knave laws Learn lock Lord man's mankind mind moral moving toyshop Nature Nature's never Note nymph o'er pain passions PATTISON perfect pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's pride Queen Rape reason rime rise satire Self-love sense Sir George Brown Sir Plume skies smiling train soul spirit Swift sylphs Thalestris thee things thou trembling Twickenham verse vice virtue walked with beast WARBURTON weak whole wings wise ΙΟ
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Página 35 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.
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 58 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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 39 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
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 79 - Fools ! Who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Página 68 - Suns run lawless through the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurled, Being on Being wrecked, and world on world; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God.
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.