 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...iso Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain ; (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair...lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 páginas
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain : (But airy substance soon unites again). The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! The liberty was resented by the lady, and a breach "between the iwo families was the result, in the... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 páginas
...interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again) : The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever! I11 147 Pope's note refers his readers to Paradise lost v1: the sword Of Michael from the armoury of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...interpos'd; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever. The remainder of the poem is full of variety and of evidence of Pope's special kind of mock-heroic... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner - 1986 - 404 páginas
...interpos'd; Fate urged the Sheers, and cut the Sylph in twain, (But Airy Substance soon unites again) The meeting Points the sacred Hair dissever From the fair Head, for ever and ever! Then flashed the living Lightenings from her Eyes, And Screams of Horror rend th' affrighted... | |
 | James A. Boon - 1990 - 264 páginas
...interpos'd; Fate urg'd the Sheers, and cut the Sylph in twain, (But Airy Substance soon unites again) The meeting Points the sacred Hair dissever From the fair Head, for ever and ever! Then flashed the living Lightnings from her Eyes, And Screams of Horror rend th'affrighted Skies.... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 páginas
...suggests that the 'Instruments of 111', a pair of scissors, complete the assault on their own: 'The meeting Points the Sacred Hair dissever / From the fair head, for ever and for ever!' (Ill, 153-4). The couplets also sustain a pattern of inanimate noun-phrases cast in an agentive role,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...interposed; 150 Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again): The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever! Then flashed the living lightnings from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 páginas
...Belinda's mind and, seeing that she is in love, can no longer protect her. The Baron cuts off the lock: The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair Head for ever and for ever! (3.153-54l Belinda screams in horror, and in another anticlimax, Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav'n... | |
 | Robert Alter - 1996 - 264 páginas
...which describes the extreme dismay of the fair Belinda when her lock of hair is cut off by the Baron: Not louder Shrieks to pitying Heav'n are cast, When Husbands or when Lap-dogs breathe their last. (111:157-158) Fowler notes with approval, as most readers would, the striking compression with which... | |
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T inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, But airy substance soon unites again,) ! The meeting points the sacred... 
