 And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! Let wreaths...  Satvrae XIV.: Fourteen satires - Page 265by Juvenal - 1900 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...Then fiash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies ; Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie ! Let... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last 5 Or when rich China vessels fall'ii from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! Let... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
..." Then flashed the livid 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, breathe their last ! Or when rich china vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie ! " Epanorthosis... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...ever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! " Let wreaths... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Then flush' d the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies, U "1 "1 "1 lap dogs, breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels fallen, from high, In glittering dust and... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - English language - 1897 - 376 pages
...wisely to lose time." " The child is father to the man." " He asked for bread and received a stone." " Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last." " He went and told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell." The last example is a variety of Epigram... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 pages
...Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, 155 And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last; 1 Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! 160 "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 122 pages
...Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, 155 And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last;1 Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In. glittering dust and painted fragments lie!... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 334 pages
...living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affright'd skies. Not louder shreaks to pitying heaven are cast When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last ! Or when rich china vessels, fall'n from high, TheconsumIn glittering dust and painted fragments lie.... | |
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