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" And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs — the speckled, and the white. "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ... - Page 70
by Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...The inferior priestess, at ber altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box: The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 352 pages
...Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...begins the saered rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various oIferings tledge, Warne and Routledge Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform 'd to combs, the speckled,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...priestess at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride ; Unnumber'd treasures opes at once, and here The various offerings of the world...toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. * In allusion to the EDKVIJ/II^K Ayaioi, an expression which frequently ccurs both in the Iliad and...
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The North-Carolina Journal of Education, Volume 2

1859 - 414 pages
...I will quote another example of this melodious nicety from Pope's description of a lady's toilet : From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. Notice those beautiful words curious, glittering, and observe bow the voice slides over the middle...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...The inferior priestess, at her altar's side. Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride ; Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transforrn'd to combs, the speckled...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...priestess at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride ; Unnumber'd treasures opes at once, and here The various offerings of the world...toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. * In allusion to the Evn^fiijcf A VMM, an expression which frequently vcuvs both in the Iliad and in...
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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons ...

George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 pages
...altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride; Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and hero The various offerings of the world appear; From each...with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glitter'ng spoil." hyparodies! What other compositions are of a similar nature? Give tho Enbstance...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 622 pages
...The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings...This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled,...
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