 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows ere they drop in showers A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...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 jar receive a flaw... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers, A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. 100 ' This day black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care ;... | |
 | England - 1868 - 792 pages
...exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows ere they drop in showers A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow." This is put in comparison with that account of Ariel's employments in which he " runs upon the sharp wind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in show'rs A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...we bestow, To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelow. 100 This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.* iw1 " This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That...force, or slight ; But what, or where, the fates have wrapped in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, ios Or some frail china jar receive a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers, A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. 100 ' This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care ;... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...To steal from rainbows, e're they drop in show'rs A brighter wash, to curl their waving hairs, 245 Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs, Nay,...invention we bestow, To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelo. This day black Omens threat the brightest Fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care;... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 802 pages
...— To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers, A brighter wash ; to curl their waving haira, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs. Nay,...invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow. Prospero, threatening Ariel for murmuring, says " I will rend an oak And eg thee in his knotty entrails,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...province" of Pope's Ariel is " to tend the fair" — To steal from lainbows, ere they drop in showers, A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow. Prospero, threatening Ariel for murmuring, says, " I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - English essays - 1874 - 418 pages
...province ' of Pope's Ariel is ' to tend the fair' — To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers, A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist...invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow. Prospero, threatening Ariel for murmuring, says ' I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails,... | |
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A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. 
