Pope's Rape of the LockClarendon Press, 1909 - 102 pages |
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... died in 1679 , in Broad Street in the city of London , where he was in business as a linendraper . After his second marriage he moved into Lombard Street , and there the poet was born on May 21 , 1688 . On the authority of the poet's ...
... died in 1679 , in Broad Street in the city of London , where he was in business as a linendraper . After his second marriage he moved into Lombard Street , and there the poet was born on May 21 , 1688 . On the authority of the poet's ...
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... died in 1745 . When Pope was twelve years old , his father left London and went to live at Binfield in Windsor Forest . There the boy was placed under the care of yet another priest , and , to use his own words , This was all the ...
... died in 1745 . When Pope was twelve years old , his father left London and went to live at Binfield in Windsor Forest . There the boy was placed under the care of yet another priest , and , to use his own words , This was all the ...
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... died in Paris at the age of eighty - six on Sep- tember 4 , 1711 , before The Rape of the Lock was published . He had left England in the year in which Pope was born , so that he could not have been the inspirer of the poem . No doubt ...
... died in Paris at the age of eighty - six on Sep- tember 4 , 1711 , before The Rape of the Lock was published . He had left England in the year in which Pope was born , so that he could not have been the inspirer of the poem . No doubt ...
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... died in the next year of small - pox . 4. We now come to the central figure of the story , Miss Arabella Fermor ( Belinda ) . Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton in Oxfordshire had died in 1642 , leaving eight children . It is only with two ...
... died in the next year of small - pox . 4. We now come to the central figure of the story , Miss Arabella Fermor ( Belinda ) . Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton in Oxfordshire had died in 1642 , leaving eight children . It is only with two ...
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... son , who married Miss Wightwick of Banbury , and died in 1736 . 3. Arabella , who married Francis Perkins of Ufton Court , and with whom we are now concerned . 4. Winifred , a nun , became abbess at Dunkirk 16 The Rape of the Lock.
... son , who married Miss Wightwick of Banbury , and died in 1736 . 3. Arabella , who married Francis Perkins of Ufton Court , and with whom we are now concerned . 4. Winifred , a nun , became abbess at Dunkirk 16 The Rape of the Lock.
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Page 49 - In heaps on heaps ; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look ; She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just in the jaws of ruin, and codille.
Page 59 - 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' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Page 44 - 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...
Page 46 - Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 41 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 54 - Soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears. The gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away, Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day. Sunk in Thalestris' arms the nymph he found, Her eyes dejected, and her hair unbound.
Page 37 - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green, Or virgins visited by Angel-pow'rs, With golden crowns and wreaths of heav'nly flow'rs ; Hear and believe!
Page 55 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 42 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride 15 Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 50 - And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain.