The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem : in Five Canto'sBernard Lintott, 1715 - 52 pages |
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... C --- , Mufe ! is due , This , ev'n Belinda may vouchfafe to view : Slight is the Subject , but not fo the Praise , If She inspire , and He approve my Lays . Say Say what strange Motive , Goddess ! cou'd compel A IL: A ...
... C --- , Mufe ! is due , This , ev'n Belinda may vouchfafe to view : Slight is the Subject , but not fo the Praise , If She inspire , and He approve my Lays . Say Say what strange Motive , Goddess ! cou'd compel A IL: A ...
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... that hover'd o'er her Head . A Youth more glitt'ring than a Birth - night Beau , ( That ev'n in Slumber caus'd her Cheek to glow ) Seem'd Seem'd to her Ear his winning Lips to lay , 2 The RAPE of the LOCK . Can . I.
... that hover'd o'er her Head . A Youth more glitt'ring than a Birth - night Beau , ( That ev'n in Slumber caus'd her Cheek to glow ) Seem'd Seem'd to her Ear his winning Lips to lay , 2 The RAPE of the LOCK . Can . I.
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... Ev'n mighty Pam that Kings and Queens o'erthrew , And mow'd down Armies in the Fights of Lu Sad Chance of War ! now , deftitute of Aid , Falls undistinguish'd by the Victor Spade ! Thus far both Armies to Belinda yield ; Now to the ...
... Ev'n mighty Pam that Kings and Queens o'erthrew , And mow'd down Armies in the Fights of Lu Sad Chance of War ! now , deftitute of Aid , Falls undistinguish'd by the Victor Spade ! Thus far both Armies to Belinda yield ; Now to the ...
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... Ev'n then , before the fatal Engine clos'd , A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the Sheers , and cut the Sylph in twain , ( * But Airy Substance soon unites again ) The meeting Points the facred Hair diffever From the ...
... Ev'n then , before the fatal Engine clos'd , A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the Sheers , and cut the Sylph in twain , ( * But Airy Substance soon unites again ) The meeting Points the facred Hair diffever From the ...
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... ev'n thy own did fpare . This , in two fable Ringlets taught to break , Once gave new Beauties to the fnowy Neck . The Sifter - Lock now fits uncouth alone , And in its Fellow's Fate forefees it own ; Uncurl'd it hangs , the fatal ...
... ev'n thy own did fpare . This , in two fable Ringlets taught to break , Once gave new Beauties to the fnowy Neck . The Sifter - Lock now fits uncouth alone , And in its Fellow's Fate forefees it own ; Uncurl'd it hangs , the fatal ...
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Page 21 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 24 - Th' imperial consort of the crown of Spades. The Club's black Tyrant first her victim...
Page 13 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky, And...
Page 3 - Nor bound thy narrow Views to Things below. Some secret Truths from Learned Pride conceal'd, To Maids alone and Children are reveal'd : What tho' no Credit doubting Wits may give?
Page 34 - Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome, And in a vapour reach'd the dismal dome.
Page 36 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy pow'r disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains.
Page 24 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Page 47 - Dapperwit, and sunk beside his chair. A mournful glance Sir Fopling upwards cast, ' Those eyes are made so killing
Page 25 - Of broken Troops an easy Conquest find. Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild Disorder seen, With Throngs promiscuous strow the level Green.