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The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists - Page clxxxvii
by James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...virtue, without beauty charm'd; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, imre a wit than wise; Strange graces still, and stranger flights, she had, Was just not Ugly, and wasju:t not mad; 50 Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create As when touch'd the brink of all we hate....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...heart alarmed,4 Awed without virtue, without beauty charmeu; Her tongue bewitched as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise; Strange...not mad; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create, 1 Instances of contrarieties, given even from such characters as are most strongly marked, and seemingly...
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History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...wondrous wise alarm'd, Aw'd without sense, and without beauty charm'd : But some odd graces and some flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad : Her tongue still ran on credit from her eyes, More pert than witty, more a wit than wise : Goodnature,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 17

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...wondrous wise alarm'd, Aw'd without sense, and without beauty charm'd : But some odd graces and some flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad : Her tongue still ran on credit from her eyes, More pert than witty, more a wit than wise: Goodnature,...
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The Works, Volume 24

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...wondrous wise alarm'd, Aw'd without sense, and" without beauty charm'dr But some odd graces and some flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad : Her tongue still ran on credit from her eyes, More pert than witty, more a wit than wise : Goodnature,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...alarm'd, 45 Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes ; Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise : Strange...she had : Was just not ugly, and was just not mad ; 50 Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate. Narcissa's...
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Poëmes ou morceaux détachés de differens auteurs anglais, traduits en vers ...

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...heart alarm'd, Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as odly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise ; Strange...create , As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate. Jifarcissa's nature, tolerably mild, To make a wash, would hardly stew a child ; Has ev'n been prov'd...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 3

Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...alarm'd , Aw'd without virtue , without beauty charm 'd ; Her tongue bewitch 'd as odly as her eyes , Less wit than mimic , more a wit than wise ; Strange...ne'er so sure our passion to create , As when she touch 'd the brink of all we hâte. Narcissa's nature , tolerably mild , / •• To make a wash ,...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...alarmjd, 45 Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise ; Strange...flights, she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad ; 59 Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate. Narcissa's...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...than mimic, more a wit than wise : Strange gtaccs still, and stranger flights, she had , Was just sot ugly, and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create As when she touch'd the hrink of nil we hate. Karcissn's nature, tolerahle mild. To make a wash would hardly stew a child;...
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