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... thro ' the world half so Un- censur'd as You have done . But let its fortune be what it will , mine is happy enough , to have given me this occasion of assuring you that I am , with the truest esteem , MADAM , Your most obedient ...
... thro ' the world half so Un- censur'd as You have done . But let its fortune be what it will , mine is happy enough , to have given me this occasion of assuring you that I am , with the truest esteem , MADAM , Your most obedient ...
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... thro ' white curtains shot a tim'rous ray , And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day : Now lap - dogs give themselves the rousing shake , And sleepless lovers , just at twelve , awake : Thrice rung the bell , the slipper knock'd ...
... thro ' white curtains shot a tim'rous ray , And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day : Now lap - dogs give themselves the rousing shake , And sleepless lovers , just at twelve , awake : Thrice rung the bell , the slipper knock'd ...
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... thro ' mystic mazes guide their way , Thro ' all the giddy circle they pursue , And old impertinence expel by new . 85 90 What tender maid but must a victim fall To one THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 7.
... thro ' mystic mazes guide their way , Thro ' all the giddy circle they pursue , And old impertinence expel by new . 85 90 What tender maid but must a victim fall To one THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 7.
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... thro ' the boundless sky . Some less refin'd , 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 ...
... thro ' the boundless sky . Some less refin'd , 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 ...
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... thro ' all things with his half - shut eyes ) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New Stratagems , the radiant Lock to gain . Ah cease , rash youth ! desist ere ' t is too late , Fear the just Gods , and think of Scylla's Fate ...
... thro ' all things with his half - shut eyes ) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New Stratagems , the radiant Lock to gain . Ah cease , rash youth ! desist ere ' t is too late , Fear the just Gods , and think of Scylla's Fate ...
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Page 38 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 57 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 146 - 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, 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 17 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive queen : He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky ; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Page 57 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 70 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 71 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 35 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of. fools.
Page 29 - Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong, for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 25 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...