 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 908 pages
...nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour ; or a new brocade ; Forget her prayers ; or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall. This is a specimen of the " indifference " alluded... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...betrays indelicacy and grossness. Will she ' Stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ? ' * No Frenchman of the eighteenth century would have imagined such a compliment. At most, that bearish... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...betrays indelicacy and grossness. Will she ' Stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ? ' * No Frenchman of the eighteenth century would have imagined such a compliment. At most, that bearish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her...masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall, no Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...Whether the Nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China-jar receive a flaw, Or stain lier honor, or her new brocade. Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart or necklace at a hall ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock* must ЫЬ Haste, then, ye spirits ! to your charge... | |
 | Ovid - Social Science - 1972 - 564 pages
...Or some frail China Jar receive a flaw, Or stain her Honour or her new Brocade, Forget her Pray'rs, or miss a Masquerade, Or lose her Heart or Necklace at a Ball (III, 105-109). In the playful account of Orithyia's rape by Boreas (6.702 ff.), Ovid's wit dominates.... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...Or some frail China Jar receive a Flaw, Or stain her Honour, or her new Brocade, Forget her Pray'rs, or miss a Masquerade, Or lose her Heart, or Necklace, at a Ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. The rhythm implies a series of equations and matched... | |
 | Carlee Lippman - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 216 pages
...Or some frail China Jar receive a Flaw, Or stain her Honour, or her new Brocade, Forget her Pray'rs, or miss a Masquerade, Or lose her Heart, or Necklace, at a Ball; Or whether Heav'n has doomed that Shock must fall.ll What can we say about these lines? For one thing,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; [Shock: the Or 'whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. lap-dog] The epic machinery ("The Machinery,... | |
 | Patrick Deane - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 270 pages
...dread possibilities: Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade. (Poems 225) This is the mode into which "Exequy" briefly moves. Eliot's ironic sensibility, at home... | |
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Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock... 
