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... rising tow'rs , There stands a structure of majestic frame , Which from the neighb'ring 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 ...
... rising tow'rs , There stands a structure of majestic frame , Which from the neighb'ring 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 ...
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... rising in her mind , Sudden he view'd , in spite of all her art , An earthly lover lurking at her heart . Amaz'd , confus'd , he found his pow'r expir'd , Resign'd to fate , and with a sigh retir'd . The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring ...
... rising in her mind , Sudden he view'd , in spite of all her art , An earthly lover lurking at her heart . Amaz'd , confus'd , he found his pow'r expir'd , Resign'd to fate , and with a sigh retir'd . The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring ...
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... ones feel such maladies as these , When each new night - dress gives a new disease . A constant vapour o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , 43.
... ones feel such maladies as these , When each new night - dress gives a new disease . A constant vapour o'er the palace flies ; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise ; Dreadful , as hermits ' dreams in haunted shades , 43.
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... rising fire . ' O wretched maid ! ' she spread her hands , and cry'd , ( While Hampton's echoes , Wretched maid ! ' reply'd ) ' Was it for this you took such constant care The bodkin , comb , and essence , to prepare ? For this your ...
... rising fire . ' O wretched maid ! ' she spread her hands , and cry'd , ( While Hampton's echoes , Wretched maid ! ' reply'd ) ' Was it for this you took such constant care The bodkin , comb , and essence , to prepare ? For this your ...
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... rising fires . And continued at the 94th verse of this Canto . Ver . 51. ' Homer's tripod walks . ' ] See Hom . Iliad xviii , of Vulcan's walking tripods . Ver . 52. And there a goose - pie talks . ' ] Al- ludes to a real fact , a lady ...
... rising fires . And continued at the 94th verse of this Canto . Ver . 51. ' Homer's tripod walks . ' ] See Hom . Iliad xviii , of Vulcan's walking tripods . Ver . 52. And there a goose - pie talks . ' ] Al- ludes to a real fact , a lady ...
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Page 8 - 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, 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 xxvii - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green...
Page 26 - Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near. Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought The close recesses of the virgin's thought; As on the nosegay in her breast reclin'd, He watch'd th...
Page 24 - Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, 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.
Page 48 - Why bows the side-box from its inmost rows ? How vain are all these glories, all our pains, Unless good sense preserve what beauty gains ; That men may say, when we the front- box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face...
Page 49 - 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...
Page 10 - The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Page 34 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Page xxxi - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I ranged the crystal wilds of air, In the clear Mirror of thy ruling Star I saw, alas! some dread...
Page 24 - 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...