 Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes: (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's locks first rose so...  The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope - Page 154by Alexander Pope - 1717 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...yoke a flea, Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upward rise, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's...founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden Star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...yoke a flea, Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse—she saw it upward rise, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes: (So Rome's...founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden Star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...flea, Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upward rise, Though he breathing spring: See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding f heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess' d in view) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden Star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright, The heav'ns bespangling with dishevell'd light. 130 The Sylphs behold it kindling... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...flea, Dried butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upward rise, Though mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...flea, Dried butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upward rise, Though mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes : (So Rome's...founder to the heav'ns withdrew. To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...flea, Dried butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the muse — she saw it upward rise, Though chew'd by blind old scholiasts o'er and o'er, heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone coufess'd in view :) A sudden star it shot through liquid air,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Adventure and adventurers - 1830 - 444 pages
...of the vanished lock of Belinda : — " But trust the muse — she saw it upward rise, Though marked by none but quick poetic eyes; (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confessed to view) ; A sudden star it shot through liquid air,... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...fate of the vanished lock of Belinda :— " But trust the muse—she saw it upward rise. Though marked by none but quick poetic eyes, (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Poculus alone confessed to view) ; A audden star It shot through liquid air, And... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - New Zealand - 1830 - 450 pages
...of the vanished lock of Belinda : — " But trust the muse — she saw it upward rise, Though marked by none but quick poetic eyes; (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confessed to view) ; A sudden star it shot through liquid air,... | |
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