But chiefly Love — to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Side 240af Alexander Pope - 1891Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 sider
...elle une suite de figures expressives, inattendues et grimacantes, qu'elle préfère ce rude carnaval Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt; There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And ail the trophies of his former loves. With teuder billet doux he lights the pyre, Ann breathes three... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 sider
...elle une suite de figures expressives, inattendues et grimaçantes, qu'elle préfère ce rude carnaval Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt; There lay three garters, half a palr of gloves, And ail the trophies of his former loves. With teuder billet doux he lighls the pyre,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 sider
...his ends. For this, ere PliCElms rose, he had implored Propitious Heaven, and every power adored ; But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve...of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fiio. Then... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 500 sider
...travaillés par l'imagination, se disent « en mal d'enfant, des filles qui se croient changées 1. - To love an altar built Of twelve vast French romances,...There lay three garters. half a pair of gloves, And ail the trophies of his former loves. « With tender billet doux ne lights the pyre, nd breathes three... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 sider
...attain'd his ends. For this, ere Phoebus rose, he had implored Propitious Heaven, and every power adored, But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve...the trophies of his former loves ; 40 With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire : Then prostrate... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 sider
...attain'd his ends. For this, ere Phoebus rose, he had implore^ Propitious Heaven, and every power adored, But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve...of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; "With tender billets-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighp to raise the fire.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 sider
...his Ends. For this, ere Phoebus rose, he had implor'd 35 Propitious Heav'n, and ev'ry Pow'r ador'd, But chiefly Love — to Love an Altar built, Of twelve...all the Trophies of his former Loves. 40 With tender Billet-doux he lights the Pyre, And breathes three am'rous Sighs to raise the Fire. Then prostrate... | |
| Alexander Pope, Aubrey Beardsley - 1968 - 84 sider
...ere Phcebus rose, he had implor'd 35 Propitious Heav'n, and ev'ry Pow'r ador'd, But chiefly Love—to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances,...all the Trophies of his former Loves. 40 With tender Billet-doux he lights the Pyre, And breathes three am'rous Sighs to raise the Fire. Then prostrate... | |
| Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 sider
...envy, and the Ladies stare' (IV, 104), he is to be disappointed. Nor is the lock destined to join the 'three Garters, half a Pair of Gloves; / And all the Trophies of his former Loves' (II, 39^1-0) which the Baron adores in the privacy of his own home. At the end of the poem everything... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sider
...attained his ends. For this, ere Phoebus rose, he had implored Propitious Heaven, and every power adored, But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve...all the trophies of his former loves. 40 With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre. And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire. Then prostrate... | |
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