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" Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her... "
The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 372
by Alexander Pope - 1822
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, 95 Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd), insulting foe ! Thou...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ...

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 520 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown ; Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew ; The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her...three: seal rings plainly allude to the three kingdoms. lignant joy at those dissensions, from which he forms the prospect that both should be disappointed,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 7

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 pages
...whistle next it grew; The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother s hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears....three seal rings plainly allude to the three kingdoms. lignant joy at those dissensions, from which he forms the prospect that both should be disappointed,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown; Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, is tonge, To whme silver, as he right wel coude; Therfore he sang thn merier Boast not my fall (he cry'd), insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low. Nor think, to...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, 95 Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, 95 Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by...
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Elegant Extracts: Consisting of larger poems

1826 - 300 pages
...grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for the widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) 'Boast not my fall,' she cried, 'insulting foe ! Thou by some other shall be laid as low. Nor think...
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An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) IBID. — CANTO V. 87. REVIEW. What are the kinds of burlesque ? Give examples. What is to be observed...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...grandame's whistle next it grew ; The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. An open satire on hereditary right ! The three seal rings plainly allude to the three kingdoms. These are the chief...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

1836 - 436 pages
...vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin grac'd her...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) " Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low. Nor think,...
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