 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of cafuiftry. But truft the Mufe — ihe faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes: (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view ) A fudden Star, it fhot thro' liquid air, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...-butterflies, .'and tomes of cafuifiry. But truft the mafe——fhe faw it upward rife,-, Tho' mark'd by. none but quick, poetic eyes: (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrewy, To ProcnIns .alone coxifefs'd in. view) j,^ Vid. Ariofto. Canto 54.;. A fudden ftar,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...Since aU things bft] Vid. Ariofto, Canto uxiv. But truft the Mufe-fhe faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view) 126 A fudden Star, it fhot thro' liquid air,... | |
 | Callimachus, William Dodd - Greek poetry - 1755 - 262 pages
...an agreeable illuitration of our poet : But truft the Mufe, ihe faw * it upwards rife, Tho* mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view.) A fudden ftar it ihot thro' liquid air, And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of cafuittry. But truft the Mufe — me faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view) A fud«en Star, it mot thro' liquid air, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of cafuiftry. But truft the Mufe— fhe faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confe&'d in view) "6 A fudden Star, it fhot thro' liquid air, And... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upwards rise, Though mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes; (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, ToProculus alone confess'd in view,) 126 A sadden star, it shot through liquid air,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 406 pages
...Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of cafuiftiy. But truft the Mufe — me faw it upward rife, Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew., To Proculus alone confefs'd in view) A fudden Star, it (hot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...Dry'd Butterflies, and Tomes of Cafuiftry. But truft the Mufe — me faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view:) A fudden Star it mot thro' liquid air, And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...Dried butterflies, and tomes of cafuiftry. But truft the Mufe — Ihc faw it upward rife, Tho" mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes : So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confefs'd in view. A fudden ftar, it fiiot thro' liquid air, And drew behind a radiant... | |
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A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light. 
