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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ... - Page 190
by William Scott - 1825 - 372 pages
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear; 130 From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And...yonder box : The tortoise here and elephant unite, 135 Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbcr'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with...unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux. Now awful...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to comtw, the speckled and the white. Hero Kin of pins extend their shining rows, Pufik, powden, patches,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transfbrm'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

1836 - 428 pages
...begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks. And all Arahia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and hero The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform 'd to combs, the speckled and the white ; Here flies of pins extend their shining row«,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - English language - 1838 - 460 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride ; Unnumber'd treasures opes at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. Dunciad, B. • The passage is this, Felix prole virum, qualis Berecynthia mater Invehitur curru Phrygias...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with...with the glittering spoiL This casket India's glowing fjems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...begins the sacred rites of pride. L'nnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings not FLEURY'S more ЫЫен, billets-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms,...
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Elements of the Philosophy of Mind: Applied to the Development of Thought ...

Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...that combination of thought termed wit. Pope in his description of a lady's toilet lias these lines : "The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd...rows ; Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux." Also, in describing the things lost upon earth that are found in the moon, he says : "There, heroes'...
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