 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again), The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever I CHAPTER VI JONATHAN SWIFT. Born 1667 AD Died 1746 AD A tragedy. Education. Impendence. Life at Temple's.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the sheers, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the...eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Xot louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last; Or... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.' — Pope. 6. ' Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last. — Pope. 7. ' His years but young, but his experience old ; His head unmellow'd, but his... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again) ; The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! FROM THE ESSAY ON MAN. THE FUTURE MERCIFULLY CONCEALED. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book... | |
 | Acrostics - 1866 - 280 pages
...tender heroine said : The wonnd I give myself with ease I bear, I die by that which kills my dear." 3. " The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head for ever and for ever." 4. " Upon some little eminence erect, And fronting to the ruddy dawn ; its courts On either hand wide... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again ;) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the...lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies; Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...interposed : 150 Fate urged the sheers, and cut the sylph in twain, But airy substance soon unites again : The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the...lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. Dryden, Persius, Satire i. Rape of the Lock continued.] The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Canto iii. Lint 153. Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1868 - 230 pages
...The conqueror of Wales. 4. The recent seat of war. 6. A river of Yorkshire. 131. ' The meeting-points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head for ever and for ever.' 1. This is a little sparkling stream. 2. And this a river fair doth seem. 3. An English fete champelre... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...interpos'd; 150 Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again1) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the...heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie!... | |
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And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their last; Or when rich china vessels fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! "Let wreaths... 
