The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 páginas |
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... feel himself alone . He had always been in ill health , and as he grew older he developed a fretfulness and irritability of disposition which taxed the patience of his companions to the utmost . Dr. Johnson thus describes the last days ...
... feel himself alone . He had always been in ill health , and as he grew older he developed a fretfulness and irritability of disposition which taxed the patience of his companions to the utmost . Dr. Johnson thus describes the last days ...
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... feeling , its felicity of diction for the absence of the naturalness of expres- sion and the splendor of imagination which had characterized the preceding age . In a state of society void of earnestness and lofty enthusiasms , given ...
... feeling , its felicity of diction for the absence of the naturalness of expres- sion and the splendor of imagination which had characterized the preceding age . In a state of society void of earnestness and lofty enthusiasms , given ...
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... feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins , Be stopped in vials , or transfixed with pins ; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie , IIO 115 Or wedged whole ages in a bodkin's 5 eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain ...
... feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins , Be stopped in vials , or transfixed with pins ; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie , IIO 115 Or wedged whole ages in a bodkin's 5 eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain ...
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... What wonder then , fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? 1 Note the suggestion in this antithesis . 170 CANTO IV . BUT anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed CANTO III . ] 4I THE RAPE OF THE LOCK .
... What wonder then , fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? 1 Note the suggestion in this antithesis . 170 CANTO IV . BUT anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed CANTO III . ] 4I THE RAPE OF THE LOCK .
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... feel such maladies as these , When each new nightdress gives a new disease . A constant vapor o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , Or bright , as visions ...
... feel such maladies as these , When each new nightdress gives a new disease . A constant vapor o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , Or bright , as visions ...
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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.