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Airy ALEXANDER POPE Alfred Tennyson ancient Ariel Arms ASTOR Atalantis AUBREY BEARDSLEY Baron's Prayer Beau Beauty Beaux Belinda Belles Billet-doux Bodkin Bosom BOUND IN CLOTH Breast breath bright Buckram CANTO Canto.-P Caryl caus'd Cave of Spleen Charms Cheek conceal'd cry'd Dæmons Dream e'er Earth Edition ev'n ev'ry fair Head Fate fix'd flies Flow'rs GEORGE ELIOT Vol glitt'ring Grace Hand Hearts heav'nly Herbert Cole Homer Honour Illustrations by Herbert JOHN LANE Ladies Lap-dogs Lesbia Lock Lord LOVE POEMS Lovers Machinery Maid mortal Nine Illustrations Nymph o'er Ombre ope'd those Eyes Ovid Percy Bulcock Poet POPE Pray'rs Pride Prize Prude Pyxide quae Queen Rage Rape rising Rosicrucian shining Sigh silver single Hair SIR JOHN SUCKLING Skies Snuff-box soon Soul Spades Spirits Sprite Star Steel cou'd Sword-knots Tears thou Thrice TILDEN Toilet Tow'rs trembling Trumps Unnumber'd Verse Virg Virgin Volumes in Preparation Wings Wits wretched
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Page 49 - Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost!
Page 21 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux.
Page 41 - 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 twitch'd the diamond in her ear; Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near.
Page 30 - Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Page 34 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; 20 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; The merchant from the Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Page 22 - But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those: Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Page 25 - 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...
Page 50 - Clipp'd from the lovely head where late it grew) That, while my nostrils draw the vital air, This hand, which won it, shall for ever wear.
Page 56 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the Men's wits against the Lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See, fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the Chief th...
Page 29 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their .pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main...