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" Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must... "
The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus - Page 52
by Perse, Juvénal - 1817
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The Rape of the Lock,: An Heroi-comical Poem,

Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 pages
...care ; Some dire disaster, or by force or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some...Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd...
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The rape of the lock, an heroi-comical poem. Adorned with plates

Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pages
...care; Some dire disaster, or by force or slight; But what, or where, the Fates have wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some...Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...in ana-, ther part of the same exquisite performance. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Of some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, pr miss a masquerade ; Or lose her hearty or necklace, at a ball; Or whether heaven has doom'd that...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Fates have wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, 105 Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...the fates have wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether beav'n has doom'd...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. ! Whether the nymph shall break Diana's 1»»', Or some frail China jar receive a flaw : Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayYs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...where, the fates havewrap'd in night* Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a hall; Or whether Heaven has dooin'd...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...where, the fates havewrap'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; ". Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; .. Or whether Heaven has...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...Fates have wrapp'd in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, 105 Or some frail china-jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether heav'n has doom'dthat...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...Mr. Pope, who is remarkably fond of antithesis, is often happy in this use of the figure. So, in his Rape of the Lock : Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail cliina jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a...
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