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... canto version ) . Thalestris is , after all , a far more conventional and characteristic representative of the beau monde , for when she indig- nantly laments the loss of the lock earlier in canto IV , she invokes the empty and ...
... canto version ) . Thalestris is , after all , a far more conventional and characteristic representative of the beau monde , for when she indig- nantly laments the loss of the lock earlier in canto IV , she invokes the empty and ...
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... canto version , which introduces both the dressing - table scene and the sylphic - gnomic machinery . Yet the comparison of Belinda with the sun , which has been taken as one of the episodes most damaging to her character , is also ...
... canto version , which introduces both the dressing - table scene and the sylphic - gnomic machinery . Yet the comparison of Belinda with the sun , which has been taken as one of the episodes most damaging to her character , is also ...
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... canto V , she has herself been rejected by the Baron . Only then does Umbriel have his triumph , while his fellow - gnomes are said to direct the grains of snuff with which the heroine begins to get the better of her adversary . In canto ...
... canto V , she has herself been rejected by the Baron . Only then does Umbriel have his triumph , while his fellow - gnomes are said to direct the grains of snuff with which the heroine begins to get the better of her adversary . In canto ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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