 | John Holland - Holy Cross - 1835 - 374 pages
...shapes, The crucifixion of itself escapes, — Admiring wood or gold, gems, silver, jet, or brass ! " On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore." POPE'S Rape of the Lock. \ NDER the above designation might not only be comprehended generally all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...Thames. Fair nymphs and well-dress'd youths around hershone, But every eye was fix'd qn her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore^ Which...disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the... | |
 | 1836 - 428 pages
...Thames. 410 Fair nymphs and well-dress'd youths around her But every eye was fix'd on her alone. [shone, On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which...disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; j Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...Thames. Fair nymphs, and well-drest youths, around her shone ; But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixt as those ; Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...and well-dress'd youths around her shone, Bat every eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white hreast o : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, hut never once offends. Bright as the... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...Thames. Fair nymphs and well-dress'd youths around her But every eye was fix'd on her alone. [shone, On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which...adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, duick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...briskest melody is. i thereby formed. Of this, the following lines fromt Pope, are a happy illustration : On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore,...disclose, Quick, as her eyes, | and as unfix,d as those. flavours to none, | to all she smiles extends, * Oft she rejects, | but never once offends. When the... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1837 - 740 pages
...kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes and as unfixed as those : Favors to none, to all she smiles extends...as the sun her eyes the gazers strike , And, like that sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful case, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...Lock, Mr. Pope has, with exquisite propriety, suited the construction of the verse to the subject. On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore,...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, | and as unfixed as those. When the pause falls after the 5th syllable, which divides the line into two equal... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...Lock, Mr. Pope has, with exquisite propriety, suited the construction of the verse to the subject : On her white breast || a sparkling cross she wore,...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes | and as unfixed as those; Favours to none, || to all she smiles extends, Oft she rejects, || but never once... | |
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Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride... 
