What tho' no credit doubting Wits may give ? The Fair and Innocent shall still believe. 40 Know, then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky : These, tho' unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover round... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life - Page 74by Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Albrecht Deetz - 1876 - 192 pages
...im Original. These though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring, Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Form und Geschlecht leicht wechseln nach Befinden. 75 Auch überwachen sie mit Emsigkeit Die Unschuld... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...the lower sky; These, though unseen, are ever on the wing Hang o'er the bos, and hover round the ring Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view...As now your own, our beings were of old. And once enclosed in woman's beauteouf mould ; Thence, by a soft transition, we repair From earthly vehicles... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...fool are two hard things to hit, For true no meaning puzzles more than wit. POPE. As once inclosed in woman's beauteous mould; Thence by a soft transition we repair From earthly vehicles to those of air. POPE. She on the quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown for sickness and for... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...lower sky: These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ringThink se The self-same Power that brought me there brought...EMERSON. To THE FRINGED GENTIAX. That openest when the qu enclosed in woman's beauteous mould ; Thence, by a soft transition, we repair From earthly vehicles... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Aubrey Beardsley - 1968 - 84 pages
...and a Chair. As now your own, our Beings were of old, And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous Mold ; Thence, by a soft Transition, we repair From earthly Vehicles to these of Air. 50 Think not, when Woman's transient Breath is fled, That all her Vanities at once are dead. Succeeding... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...hitherto been suggested. There are patterns across the five Cantos connecting human life to the sylphs ('Thence, by a soft Transition, we repair / From earthly Vehicles to these of Air' (I, 49-50)); the sylphs to objects (in the protection of Belinda's appearance and elsewhere), and objects... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...o'er the box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou hast in air. And view with scom two pages and a chair. As now your own, our beings were of old, And once enclosed in woman's beauteous mould; Thence, by a soft transition, we repair From earthly vehicles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...lower sky; These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring: Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view...As now your own, our beings were of old, And once enclosed in woman's beauteous mould; Thence, by a soft transition, we repair From earthly vehicles... | |
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