 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins; Or plunged...with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a riveled fiow'r: Or, as Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill,1 In... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...Be ftopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie , Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye, Gums and pomatums shall his flight reftrain , While clog'd he beats his filken wings in vain ; Or allum ftyptics with contracting pow'r... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 pages
...sins. Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain; Or alum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pages
...sins, Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight retain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain; Or alum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain ; 130 Or allum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie ; Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye ; Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain. While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain ; Or allum-styptics, with contracting pow'r, Shrink his thin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...sins, Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins; Or pluag'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye: Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain; Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...sins, Be stop'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye: Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clog'd he beats his silken wings in vain ; Or alluni stvptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...sins, Be stopp'd in vials, or trsnsfix'd with pins; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wins* in vain j Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...125 Be stopt in vials, or transtix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye: , Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain ; 130 Or allnm styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his... | |
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Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be... 
