 Goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows....  The British anthology; or, Poetical library - Page 9by British anthology - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 pages
...appear ; 130 From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And...yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, 135 Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.6 Here files of pins extend their shining rows,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...Th' inferior Priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...yonder box : The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transfbmi'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs,... | |
 | George Campbell - Rhetoric - 1854 - 456 pages
...the Iliad and in the Odyssey. t Hudibras, part i., canto 2. £ Dunciad, B. $ The passage is this : This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all...Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elty)hant unite : Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Her files of pins extend their... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...Th' inferior priestess, at her altar side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...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, Puffo,... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Women - 1855 - 428 pages
...toilet — " And now unveil'd the toilet stands display'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. ****** This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all...yonder box : The tortoise here and elephant unite, Tranform'd to combs, the speckl'd and the white ; Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; , iso From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And...white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, 137 Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Th' inferior Priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...yonder box: The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transfomrd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...yonder box ; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; iso From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And...yonder box. The tortoise here, and elephant unite, Trausforrn'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, m... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...The inferior priestess at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. particular heaviness and delay, " and that the swiftness of Camilla is rather contrasted than exemplified,"... | |
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