| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...The peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide, To enclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! These lines are indeed a miracle of artifice. The setting is not merely satirical ; it is comic,... | |
| English language - 1860 - 366 pages
...serious'composition. (2.) Ludicrous junction of small things with great, as of equal importance. " Then flash'd the living 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... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 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...for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from hereyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies ; Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are... | |
| 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.... | |
| William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 678 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 282 EARLY LIFE OF SWIFT. CHAPTER VI. JONATHAN SWIFT. Born 1667 AD Died 1745 AD THE life of the famous... | |
| 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 fair...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 judgment... | |
| 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... | |
| Double acrostics - 1866 - 280 pages
...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 - 628 pages
...: 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 fair...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... | |
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