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A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond - Page 61
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...billet-doux; Wounds, charms, and ardours, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. 120 And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, 125 To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; Th' inferior priestess,...
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The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,

Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 pages
...billet-doux; Wounds, charms, and ardours, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; Th' inferior priestess,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...for a quotation, but as the omission of any part would be a real mutilation, I shall give it entire. And now unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic powers. A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; Th'...
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The rape of the lock, an heroi-comical poem. Adorned with plates

Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pages
...Wounds, charms, and ardours, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. C—.1 And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each...the nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmestic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears;...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...of a lady's toilet, in Pope's Rape of the Lock, is superlatively fine. And now unveil'd the loilet stands display'd, Each silver vase in mystic order...intent adores, With head uncover'd,' the cosmetic powers: A heav'niy image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears. Th' inferior...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...head. 120 And now, unvail'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. I First, rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image in the glass appears, 125 To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; Th' inferior priestess,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...sooner read, Bat all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands dispTay'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd...adores. With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; The' inferior...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...aod ardours, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanished from thy head. 120 And now, uuveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, roh'd in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heav'nly image...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...charms, and ardours were no sooner read But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. Andnow,unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd Each silver vase in mystic...nymph intent adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic powers. A heavenly image in the glass appears, To.that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; Th' inferior...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...nosoonerread, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display 'd, Each Silver vase in mystic order laid. First, rob'd...adores, With head uncover'd, the cosmetic pow'rs. A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; The' inferior priestess,...
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