 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Počet stránok 850
...Spenser. Faerie Qucenc, book iv. C. IV. Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; The doubtful beam long...; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. Pope. The Rape of the Lock, CT A bard — a lord — let reason take her scales, And fiiirly weigh... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Počet stránok 646
...e " Sic nbi fata vocant, udis abjectus in herbis, Ad vada Moeandri concinit albus olor."— Ov. Ep. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At...subside. See ! fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the chief the unequal fight to try, Who sought... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - Počet stránok 510
...at her smile, the beau revived again. Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair; The doubtful beam long...At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See tierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the chief... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - 1850 - Počet stránok 484
...disease ' " " Who sent the thief that stole the cash away, And punished him that put it in his way." " The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside." " But this bold lord with manly strength endued, She with one finger and a thumb subdued." Pope himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - Počet stránok 348
...side to side ; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought na.more than on his foe to die_. But this bold lord, with ma1uystrength endued, She with one finger... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 874
...at her smile, the beau reviv'd again. Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's ! " # $ z With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - Počet stránok 838
...at her smile, the beau revived again. Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair. The doubtful beam long...; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. Sec fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the... | |
 | 1853 - Počet stránok 748
...told us that there were two bad rhymes in the Rape of the Lock, and in the space of eight lines : " ' The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. But this bold lord, with manly strength endued, She with one finger and a thumb subdued.' " Mr. Walscott.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - Počet stránok 352
...But at her smile the beau reviv'd again. Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; The doubtful beam long...hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought... | |
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - Počet stránok 380
...weight, that the trembling balance reminds us of that passage of Pope, where Jove weighs the beau's wits against the lady's hair : " ' The doubtful beam...side, At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside." " The language contains few papers more eloquent with patriotism, or invective against England, or... | |
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Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning... 
