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" Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. 'Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be... "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ... - Page 77
by Alexander Pope - 1869
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...of Shock. To fifty chosen Sylpbs, of special note, 265 We trust the important charge, the Petticoat: Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard...charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, 270 Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, — Be stop'd in vials, or transfix't with pins,...
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 1; Volume 66

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard...Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins ; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedged whole...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...POPE. The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue. POPE. Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post...Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopt in vials, or transfix'd with pins. POPE. There the snake throws her enamell'd skin; Weed wide...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1876 - 530 pages
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, Though stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale. Part good, part bad : of bad the longer scroll ; Whose...will so incense God, as to leave them, and expose o'erlake his sins, Be stopp'd in vials, or transnVd with pins; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes...
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My Study Windows

James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...which he assigns to the sylphs who neglect their duty are charmingly appropriate and ingenious : — " Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post...Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins; Be stopped in vials or transfixed with pins, Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedged whole...
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An Introduction to the Study of English Literature;: Comprising ...

Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...fence to fail, Tho' stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale; ** Form a strong line about die silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around....feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, ** Be stop'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedg'd whole...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...Ariel himself shall' be the guard of Shock. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale; 120 Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard...Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins ; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedged whole...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...stiff with hoops, and armed with rit s of whale — Form a etrong line about the silver bound, Ала guard the wide circumference around. ""Whatever spirit,...Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie, Or wedged whole...
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The Pleasure of Their Company: An Anthology of Civilized Writing

Louis Kronenberger - Anthologies - 1946 - 688 pages
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