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" Oh ! she was perfect, past all parallel — Of any modern female saint's comparison ; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison ; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by... "
The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 8
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824
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The Complete Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison; and wine. And scatter'd cities crowning these. Whose...thou with me. And peasant girls, with deep bine eyes iu this naughty world of ours, Where our first parents never learn'd to kiss Till they were exiled...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...flower on earth Is virtue, the only lasting treasure, truth. 5527 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 266 In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine " incomparable oil," Macassar! 5528 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 17, PIXEN. j)oubt not her care should be To comb your noddle with...
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The Lively Lady Townshend and Her Friends: An Effort to Set Forth the Doings ...

Erroll Sherson - 1926 - 398 pages
...incomparables de 1'Huile de Macassar ". Byron remembered this hairdressing puff when he wrote in Don Juan : In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her Save thine incomparable oil " Macassar ". Another important matter was that these erections should be most carefully preserved once they were...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...past all parallel — Of any modem female saint's comparison ; 6î8 629 Even her minutest motions weut as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison:...surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar ! ХУШ. Perfect she was, bat as perfection is Insipid in this naaghty world of oars, Where our first...
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Fashion & Merchandising Fads

Frank W. Hoffmann, William G. Bailey - 1994 - 336 pages
...to slicking their hair into place with the Macassar Oil noted by Byron in his epic poem, Don Juan: In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! This hair oil was reputed to have been extracted from the nut kernel of trees growing on the Celebes...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...comparison; 150 So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of...naughty world of ours. Where our first parents never leam 'd to kiss Till they were exiled from their earlier bowers, 140 Where all was peace, and innocence,...
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"And trace it in this poem every line": Methoden und Verfahren ...

Thomas Rommel - 1995 - 420 pages
...geschrieben und mit der Information aus der Codierung korreliert. [I, 18] Perfect she was, but äs perfection is Insipid in this naughty world of ours, Where our first parents never learned to kiss Till they were exiled from their earlier bowers, Where all was <524#5/3> peace and...
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...'twas philosophy that this did; I can't help thinking puberty assisted; and of Juan's prudish mother, In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! (BYRON, Don Juan) It's a happy surprise to see a poet being so frivolous, masterful, and free with...
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A B Sea: A Loose-footed Lexicon

Jack Lagan - 2003 - 368 pages
...comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison. From Don Juan by Lord Byron ( 1 788-1 824) Byron died in 1824 of marsh fever whilst trying to organise...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 24

1869 - 958 pages
...comparison ; So far above the cunning powers of hell Her guardian angel had given up his garrison ; Evcn her minutest motions went as well As those of the...best time-piece made by Harrison. In virtues nothing eartbly could surpasc her Save thine * incomparable oil/ Macassar. -" Perfect she was, but as perfection...
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