 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...the white. Her files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet doux. 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... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...poking-sticks (a) of steel, ' And what maids lack from head to heel.' " And on Belinda's toilet — ' Here files of pins extend their shining rows, ' Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.' " Pins, therefore, as an article of dress so essential, so much in use, and so from time to time calling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the whit*. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Pufts, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux. Now awful Beauty...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...yonder box: The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Transform 'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffa, night, with sterner tone, " Whose hard dry hearts...will cost you many a groan ; In dolorous mansion lo every grace. And calls forth all the wonders of her face: Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And... | |
 | 1903 - 248 pages
...box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white, Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders,...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... | |
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 pages
...Box. The Tortoise here and Elephant unite, 135 Transform 'd to Combs, the speckled and the white. Here Files of Pins extend their shining Rows, Puffs, Powders,...its Arms; The Fair each moment rises in her Charms, 140 Repairs her Smiles, awakens ev'ry Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face; Sees by Degrees... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1974 - 310 pages
...demonstrably better than another at a particular spot. Describing Belinda's toilet table, Pope says Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux. He might have written "novels" instead of "Bibles," but he did not, and the irony (to say nothing of... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Thomas Parnell, John Mitford, Thomas Parnell, John Mitford - 320 pages
...yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows. Puffs, powders,...moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, Pignrina jam miscot, quo plus sua purpura gliscet, Et geminans bellis splendet mage fulgor... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...yonder Box. The Tortoise here and Elephant unite, Transform'd to Combs, the speckled and the white. Here Files of Pins extend their shining Rows, Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux. The word 'Bibles' is linked alliteratively to Belinda's love-letters, and as usually happens with alliteration,... | |
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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. 
