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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 123
by John Aikin - 1821 - 807 pages
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...neck ; The sister-lock now sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow's fate foresees its own : Uncurled it hangs, the fatal shears demands, And tempts, once...seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these ! " The Fifth Canto opens, in Clarissa's counsel, with a parody of Homer's speech of Sarpedon to Glaucud....
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...demands, And tempo, once more, thy sacrilegious hands. Oh hadst thou. cruel ! been content to seize Main anc'd, Shedding sweet influence : less bright the...His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From l?i vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For wh» can move when fair Belinda fails ? Not half so...
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An Introduction to the Study of English Literature;: Comprising ...

Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 pages
...sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow's fate foresees its own; Uncurl'd it hangs, the fatal sheers demands, And tempts once more, thy sacrilegious hands....seize "* Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these I CANTO V. SHE said: the pitying audience melt in tears. But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's...
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A grammar of the English language, ed. by L. Schmitz

Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 pages
...Eobertson, Charles V. " Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide." Pope, Essays. " Oh had'st'thou, Cruel, been content to seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these." Pope, Rape of the Lock. "Wot loth To linger, I would here with you partake. . . The simple pastimes...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...neck; 170 The sister-lock now sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow's fate foresees its own; Uncurled it hangs, the fatal shears demands, And tempts, once...pitying audience melt in tears, But fate and Jove had stopped the baron's ears. In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda...
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Longer English Poems: With Notes Philological and Explanatory, and an ...

John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 pages
...uncouth, alone, 635 And in its fellow's fate foresees its own ; Uncurl'd it hangs, the fatal sheers demands, And tempts once more thy sacrilegious hands....seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these." 640 CANTO V. SHE said ; the pitying audience melt in tears ; But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...neck ; The sister-lock now sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow's fate foresees its own ; Uncurled it hangs, the fatal shears demands, And tempts once...Oh hadst thou, cruel ! been content to seize Hairs loss in sight, or any hairs but these ! " CANTO v. She said: the pitying audience melt in tears; But...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...its fellow's fate foresees its own ; Uncurl'd it hangs, the fatal shears demands, And tempts, onee more, thy sacrilegious hands. Oh, hadst thou, cruel...Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these ! CANTO FIFTH. SHE said : the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...neck; The sister-lock now sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow's fate foresees its own ; Uncurl'd Laurie." Sleep, soldiers ! still in honor'd rest Your...smiles, and will not sigh, While we for hopeless Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix'd the Trojan...
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Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends, a selection ...

Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...! A Sylph, too, warned me of the threats of Fate, In mystic visions, now believed too late ! . . . Oh, hadst thou, cruel ! been content to seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs than these. Canto V. She said, the pitying audience melt in tears, But fate and Jove had stopped the...
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