 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...truest esteem, madam, your mpst obedient, humble servant, A. POPE. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. CANTO I, 'HAT dire offence from amorous causes spring!. What mighty contests rise from trivial things, 1 sing — this verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Nolasram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos ; Sed ju vat, hoc precibus me trlbuiste lull.— Mart. CANTO I. WHAT dire offence from amorous causes spring*. What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing ; — this verse to Caryl, Muse ! is due : This e'en Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1892 - 580 pages
...warfare,2 may be taken to indicate rather a necessary state of constant preparation for war. And — " What dire offence from amorous causes spring, What mighty contests rise from trivial things",* when we find that a not unfrequent source of strife was probably this abduction by force4 of women... | |
 | Theodor Schenk - Epic poetry - 1900 - 154 pages
...erinnert, aber von keinem von beiden abhängig zu sein braucht; es ist eben der typische beginn eines epos: «What dire offence from amorous causes spring»,. What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. — This verse to Caryl, Mosel is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is... | |
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WHAT dire offence from amorous causes spring*. What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing ; — this verse to Caryl, Muse ! is due : This... 