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Now lapdogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. The Rape of the Lock (Fr. I). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Did some more sober critic come abroad?
If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.)
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to Bathurst.)
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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. The Rape of the Lock (Fr. I). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play,
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. The Rape of the Lock (Fr. II). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,
A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to a Lady, l. 71-2 (1735).)
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. The Rape of the Lock, cto. 2, l. 27-8 (1714).)
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