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... Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride . Unnumber'd treasures ope at once , and here The various off'rings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil , And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil . This ...
... Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride . Unnumber'd treasures ope at once , and here The various off'rings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil , And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil . This ...
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... trembling on the floating tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky , And soften'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves , the zephyrs gently play , Belinda smil'd , and all the world was gay . All but the sylph ...
... trembling on the floating tides ; While melting music steals upon the sky , And soften'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves , the zephyrs gently play , Belinda smil'd , and all the world was gay . All but the sylph ...
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... Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair ; Some hang upon the pendants of her ear ; With beating hearts the dire event they wait , Anxious , and trembling for the birth of fate . THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . CANTO III . 1 24.
... Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair ; Some hang upon the pendants of her ear ; With beating hearts the dire event they wait , Anxious , and trembling for the birth of fate . THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . CANTO III . 1 24.
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... 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 . Ah ...
... 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 . Ah ...
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... trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tott'ring China shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A sylph too warn'd me of the threats of fate , In mystic visions , now believ'd too late ! See the poor ...
... trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tott'ring China shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A sylph too warn'd me of the threats of fate , In mystic visions , now believ'd too late ! See the poor ...
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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...