 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...its way, "the "description of the various rapture and conflicting emotions of the nun :— " II iiv. happy is the blameless Vestal's lot ! The World forgetting, by the World forgot : Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ! Each prayer accepted, auJ eurh wish resigned ; Labour and... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...more. RULE XVIII.—A participle is a pure adjective, and agrees with its noun. Thus, in Pope— " How happy is the blameless vestal's lot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot!" where forgetting, the present active participle, and forgot, the past passive participle, both agree... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 494 pages
...more. RULE XVIIL — A participle is a pure adjective, and agrees with its noun. Thus, in Pope — " How happy is the blameless vestal's lot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot I " where forgetting, the present active participle, and forgot, the past passive participle, both... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 224 pages
...more. RULE XVIII. — A participle is a pure adjective, and agrees with its noun. Thus, in Pope — " How happy is the blameless vestal's lot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot ! " where forgetting, the present active participle, and forgot, the past passive participle, both... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...loved a man. 70 Dim and remote the joys of saints 1 see; Nor envy them that Heaven I lose for thee. , serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed; there towers begirt With battlement Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned ; Labour and rest,... | |
 | English language - 1917 - 220 pages
...a few neat antitheses. 'I mourn the lover, not lament his fault,' she says, adding very shortly i1 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine on the spotless mind ! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labor and rest... | |
 | Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 222 pages
...for a few neat antitheses. 'I mourn the lover, not lament his fault,' she says, adding very shortly:1 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine on the spotless mind ! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labor and rest... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...1238. A word spoken in due season, how good it is.— Old Testament (AV 1611), Proverbs, chap. xv. (How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot ;) The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 1239. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Eloisa to Abelard. 1240. The world is made up for the most part of... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...occulto latent! I low often the highest talent lurks in obscurity ! PLAUTUS— Captiri. I. 2. 62. 17 POPE— Eloisa to Abelard. L. 207. 18 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1924 - 784 pages
...situation was that on the brass plate was inscribed ' Merryweather & Gardiner, Civil Engineers.' ' How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot ! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.' Joseph was neither blameless nor a Vestal, but he certainly was by the world forgot, and the knowledge... | |
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