| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...showers, 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. 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
...showers, 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. Prospero, threatening Ariel for murmuring, says ' I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...showers, 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. This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care ; Some... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...to make the well-dress'd rabble stare. POPE. A veil of richest texture wrought she wears. POPE. Nay, oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. POPE. Here stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd. POPE.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...1714. 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. This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care ; Some... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...showers, A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; \ay seem'd in thee so perfect, that [ thought No evil durst attempt thee ; but " This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care : Some... | |
| Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...showVs A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire then - airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelow. This day, black Omens threat the brightest FanThat e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...to make the well-dress'd rabble stare. POPE. A veil of richest texture wrought she wears. POPE. Nay, oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. POPE. Here stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd. POPE.... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...showers 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.' From ' Moisa to Abelard.' In these deep solitndes and awful cells, Where heavenly-pensive Contemplation... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, 25 Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. BEAUTY. (The Rape of the Lock, Canto F.) Say, why are beauties prais'd and honour 'd most, The wise... | |
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