 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, ornecklace at a ball, , • Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. What is called the point of an epigram, consists, for most part, in some Antithesis of this kind ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...havewrap'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; ". Forget...lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; .. Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to yonr charge repair : The fluttering... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...havewrap'd in night* Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her...masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a hall; Or whether Heaven has dooin'd that Shock must fail . Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...Or some frail China jar receive a flaw : Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayYs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shuck shall fall. Haste then, yrspirits! to yonr charge repair: The fluttering... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...some frail China jar receive a flaw: Or stain her honour, or her new brocade . Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fail. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair: The fluttering... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1808 - 468 pages
...some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall f. This is humorous, in that it is a lively sketch of the female... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, 105 Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her...heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether heav'n has doom'dthat Shock must fall. Haste then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: 111 The flutt'ring fan be... | |
 | Albius Tibullus - 1812 - 386 pages
...some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a hall, Or whether heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. Canto 2. Ver. 49. This Elegy abounds in difficult... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her hearr, or necklace at a ball, Or whether heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. What is called the point of an epigram, consists, for most part, in some antithesis of this kind; surprising... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...wrapt in night: Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law ; Or some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her...Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. Rafle of the Lock, Canto ii. 101. One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming... | |
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This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china... 
