 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then Clarissa drew with tempting grace 415 A two-edg'd weapon from her shining case : So Ladies...Knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends The little engine on his fingers' ends; 430 This just... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case : So ladies in romance...knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. iso VARIATION. VEU. 1C5 From hence, the first edition continues to rer 134. He takes the gift with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 pages
...their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edg'd weapon from her shining case : So Ladies...The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the Lock... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...of the two curling locks of Belinda's back hair : — Just then Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edg'd weapon from her shining case, So ladies...knight, Present the spear and arm him for the fight. He takes the gift with reverence, and extends The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 pages
...In all innocence the prospective victim bends over the tea urn. The intending ravisher makes ready. He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Will, 125 How soon they find fit Instruments of Ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting Grace A two-edg'd Weapon from her shining Case; So Ladies...The little Engine on his Fingers' Ends, This just behind Belinda's Neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant Steams she bends her Head: Swift to the Lock... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance...arm him for the fight. 130 He takes the gift with reverence, and extends The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...How soon they find fit instruments of ill? Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance...arm him for the fight. 130 He takes the gift with reverence, and extends The litde engine on his finger's ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance...knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pages
...160), and Clarissa's donation of the fateful scissors concludes as an epic simile for amatory combat: "So Ladies in Romance assist their Knight, / Present the Spear, and arm him for the Fight" (canto 3, lines 129-30, p. 175). However, the love that Ariel discovers in Belinda, a secretive and... | |
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The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the Lock a thousand Sprites repair... 
