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" And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy... "
The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ... - Page 69
by Alexander Pope - 1836 - 442 pages
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The Rape of the Lock: an Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos

Alexander Pope, Aubrey Beardsley - Art - 1968 - 84 pages
...Head can boast Shall draw such Envy as the Lock you lost. For, after all the Murders of your Eye, 145 When, after Millions slain, yourself shall die ; When...consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belindas Name! AS. Notes NOTES, INCLUDING THOSE BY THE AUTHOR Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos...
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Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

Barbara Herrnstein Smith - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 307 pages
...bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravish'd Hair Which adds new Glory to the shining Sphere! Not all the Tresses that fair Head can boast Shall draw such Envy as the...the Murders of your Eye, When after Millions slain, your self shall die; 145 When those fair Suns shall sett, as sett they must, And all those Tresses...
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The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal

Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...while the ironical hyperboles are deftly mediated by a darker sense of the transience of human beauty: For, after all the murders of your eye, When, after...shall die. When those fair suns shall set, as set them must. And all those tresses shall be laid in dust. This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame....
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bright nymph! to moum thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast. Shall draw such envy as...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 1:3. Caryll = John Caryll requeued the conciliatory light satire 1:44. Ring = place for flirting...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...nymph! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 EPISTLE To Miss BLOUNT On her leaving the Town after the CORONATION As some fond virgin, whom her...
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...die, but your name will live because of what my muse has wrought. The four lines are as follows: (309) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must....fame. And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. The writers whom 1 have cited on recent pages have all been English. For two pertinent non-English...
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The Victorian Illustrated Book

Richard Maxwell - Art - 2002 - 484 pages
...candles are unlighted. Their stems and bases are ornamented with sinuous swirls of vegetable forms, When those fair Suns shall set, as set they must,...consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Beiindas Name ! 150 AB. 1 . Aubrey Beardsley, "The New Star," cul-de-lampe to Alexander Pope, The Rape...
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Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : a ...

Erica Jong - Fiction - 2003 - 548 pages
...bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravish'd Hair Which adds new Glory to the shining Sphere! Not all the Tresses that fair Head can boast Shall draw such Envy as the...the Murders of your Eye, When, after Millions slain, your Self shall die; When those fair Suns shall set, as set they must, And all those Tresses shall...
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Hogarth's Harlot: Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England

Ronald Paulson - Art - 2003 - 460 pages
...When, after Millions slain, your self shall die; When those fair Suns shall set, as set they must, When all those Tresses shall be laid in Dust; This Lock,...Fame, And mid'st the Stars inscribe Belinda's Name. "This lock" is, in the carpe diem context of the last lines, Pope's poem, under the aegis of the poetic...
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Borderlines: A Memoir

Edmund Keeley - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 344 pages
...though the hunchback had suddenly been transformed into the eternal lover by the power of his own verse: When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,...fame, And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. In those days of accelerated study, there was little time outside the classroom and the long hours...
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